Blanket desertion amnesty for all soldiers who deserted between 28 September 1821 and 31 July of the current year, and for officers married without licence, provided they present themselves to the comandantes generales within one month of publication. Savage: 'Decreto indultando del delito de desercion a todos los soldados que lo hubiesen cometido del 28 de Set. de 1821, hasta el 31 de Julio del pste. año, y a los oficiales q. se hallan casados sin licencia...' [= reached every comandancia incl. Alta California]
| Date | 1829-08-20 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Congreso General |
| To | Comandantes Generales |
| Place | Mexico [Mejico] |
| Series | Departmental State Papers, San José |
| Tomo | I–III (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p. 228 |
| Savage copy page | 185 [printed stamp] / 34 [hw foliation, below stamp] |
| Scan leaf | n185 |
| Document type | decree |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Congreso General to Comandantes Generales, Mexico [Mejico], 1829-08-20, Departmental State Papers, San José, I–III, p. 228, Archives of California, C-A 44, 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–III]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/ca44/ca44-d176.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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