Abolition of the compulsory tithe: 'Decreto del Congreso, mandando cesar en toda la Republica, la obligacion civil de pagar el diezmo eclesiastico.' Gloss: Congress orders that throughout the Republic the civil obligation to pay the ecclesiastical tithe shall cease. One of the core Gomez Farias church-state reform laws; directly relevant to mission and parish finance in Alta California.
| Date | 1833-10-27 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Congreso |
| To | whole Republic |
| Place | Mexico [City] |
| Series | Departmental State Papers, San José |
| Tomo | I–III (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p. 500 |
| Savage copy page | 243 [stamp] / 90 [hw] |
| Scan leaf | n243 |
| Document type | decree |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Congreso to whole Republic, Mexico [City], 1833-10-27, Departmental State Papers, San José, I–III, p. 500, 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-d324.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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