On the need for a custom-house & wharf. Presidio buildings collapsing ('no hay una habitación que no se esté cayendo'); w/o a customs house/muelle less than ⅓ of duties are collected; a well-run aduana should yield 30–40,000 pesos/yr 'á no ser que la revolución acabe con los ganados que son la base fundamental del comercio.' Foreign commerce must be tolerated but foreign ships forced to pay tonnage & cargo duties; contraband uncontrollable for lack of guards; requests staff (praises Comand. Francisco Pacheco) + receivers at SB/SF/SD.
| Date | 1833-02-08 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Rafael González, Sub-comis.o |
| To | Director Gen.l de Rentas |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Custom House) |
| Tomo | I–VIII (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.II.6–7 (orig. 276–9) |
| Savage copy page | 45–46 |
| Scan leaf | n45–n46 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Rafael González, Sub-comis.o to Director Gen.l de Rentas, Monterey, 1833-02-08, Dep. State Papers, Benicia (Custom House), p.II.6–7 (orig. 276–9), Archives of California, C-A 41, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within I–VIII]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca41/ca41-d48.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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