Instrucciones / Prevenciones para los Comisionados de secularización (12 *prevenciones*, companion to Doc 78): each Comisionado presents his credential to the mission's padre, takes the libros de caja & credit records, and forms the art.-13 general inventories — separating the *casco* (buildings, church, workshops, each office's tools/furniture) from the *campo* (real estate: vineyards & orchards with tree-counts, fences, then livestock); cut superfluous expense; explain secularization to the *indígenas* 'con dulzura y paciencia' (missions becoming pueblos, lands & goods to be distributed, their houses given in property); dissolve the *monjerío* (girls returned to parents); propose *mayordomos* & their salaries (art. 8); rancherías of 25+ families may form separate pueblos (fewer become a *barrio* of the nearest pueblo); census each pueblo's souls to set municipal offices & call elections
| Date | 1834-08-09 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Figueroa (Monterey) |
| To | Comisionados |
| Series | State Papers, Missions and Colonization |
| Tomo | II |
| Original tomo page | p.258–262 (Sav. p. 363) |
| Savage copy page | 170–174 |
| Scan leaf | n168–172 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Figueroa (Monterey) to Comisionados, 1834-08-09, State Papers, Missions and Colonization, II, p.258–262 (Sav. p. 363), 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-d89.html