A key document on the limits of alcalde authority

Departmental State Papers, Benicia, tomo Prefecturas y Juzgados I–VI · BANC MSS C-A 42, document 1267

A key document on the limits of alcalde authority. Governor holds the alcalde's nomination unconstitutional for failure of the legal formalities, and every judicial act of his void. Verbatim: 'Que la nominacion del alcalde no es Constitucional por haberse faltado á las formulas legales - Que todo acto judicial de dicho, será nulo.' Savage's cite carries his own note '(Por mala encuadernación)' warning the original pages are bound out of order.

Date1833-07-05 (exact)
FromEl Gov.r al Alcalde J.é Ant.º dela Guerra
PlaceSta Bárbara
SeriesDepartmental State Papers, Benicia
TomoPrefecturas y Juzgados I–VI (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo pagep. 523-524 y 528 (Por mala encuadernación)
Savage copy page36
Scan leafn452
Document typeoficio
SourceSavage abstract

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How to cite this documentEl Gov.r al Alcalde J.é Ant.º dela Guerra, Sta Bárbara, 1833-07-05, Departmental State Papers, Benicia, Prefecturas y Juzgados I–VI, p. 523-524 y 528 (Por mala encuadernación), Archives of California, C-A 42, 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 Prefecturas y Juzgados I–VI]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/ca42/ca42-d1267.html
The 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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