Spans n370-n375. Decree of the Alta California Diputación dividing the territory into two cantons. 'El primero Se denominará de Monterrey, cuya Capital será la poblacion de este nombre, y comprenderá dicha municipalidad, las de S.n José y San Francisco, inclusa la frontera del norte' [= the first canton, Monterey, takes in the municipalities of San José and San Francisco and the northern frontier]; second canton = Los Angeles with Sta Barbara and San Diego. Each canton to have a Gefe Político (art. 4-14), elected from a terna formed by the ayuntamientos; powers include watching over mission property, granting colonizable land, and licensing marriages.
| Date | 1836-12-09 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Castro, Presidente de la Diputacion |
| To | (decree, full text copied) |
| Place | Monterey [Savage heads it México, then annotates (Mont.)] |
| Series | Departmental State Papers, San José |
| Tomo | I–III (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | pp. 342-43 |
| Savage copy page | 370 [stamp] / 55 [hw] |
| Scan leaf | n370–n375 |
| Document type | territorial decree, FULL TEXT (21 articles) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Castro, Presidente de la Diputacion to (decree, full text copied), Monterey [Savage heads it México, then annotates (Mont.)], 1836-12-09, Departmental State Papers, San José, I–III, pp. 342-43, 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-d666.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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