decree erecting Mission San Luis Obispo into a Pueblo (per the 11 Feb 1842 mission-arreglo faculties): having no goods & few 'Cristianos viejos' who support themselves, it becomes a pueblo with the vacant nearby lands as ejidos; the neophytes given 'entera libertad,' owing only limited personal service to the cura; the ex-mission building becomes the Casa Cural (its rooms for schools/court/jail); an interim juez de paz; solar grants only via the government for symmetric streets; the cura to manage water rights; art. 7 the emancipados may not sell their lands (revert to the Nation if heirless) + art. 8 communal-labor duties
| Date | 1844-07-16 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Gov. Manuel Micheltorena |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | State Papers, Missions and Colonization |
| Tomo | II |
| Original tomo page | p.399–401 (Sav. pp. 679–80) |
| Savage copy page | 318–320 |
| Scan leaf | n317–319 |
| Document type | abstract (decree) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Gov. Manuel Micheltorena, Monterey, 1844-07-16, State Papers, Missions and Colonization, II, p.399–401 (Sav. pp. 679–80), Archives of California, C-A 53, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca53/ca53-d188.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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