Nicolás Soler & Gov. Pedro Fages → Diego González — military discipline

Nicolás Soler & Gov. Pedro Fages → Diego González — military discipline. — (1) Every party leaving the presidio/port to march well-escorted. (2) ⭐⭐ Cmdt.-Gen.'s order (via Fages): the officers & troops behave with 'una libertad vecina muy perjudicial por los desórdenes escandalosos en que incurren con las indias cristianas y gentiles' — circulate a *repressive* order with grave penalties, 'nada disimule en este punto.' (3) The settlement-of-sailors policy from the Reglamento (Art. 2, tít. 3 — fill vacancies from ship crews; admit voluntary settlers). ⭐ Spanish command's own admission of soldiers' sexual abuse of Indian women — significant for indigenous/social history. → the Indian-raiding dossier, social history.

Date	1785, Apr 15 / Jul 1, Monterey (year)
From	Doc II-26
Series	State Papers, Sacramento
Tomo	I
Original tomo page	—
Savage copy page	175–176
Scan leaf	n174–n175
Document type	Transcription
Source	Savage abstract

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Doc II-26, 1785, Apr 15 / Jul 1, Monterey, State Papers, Sacramento, I, —, Archives of California, C-A 54, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Correction to this entry.

Previously read author: 'Doc II-26'; recipient: ''; date_text: '1785, Apr 15 / Jul 1, Monterey'; orig_page: '—'; summary: "Nicolás Soler & Gov. Pedro Fages → Diego González — military discipline. — (1) Every party leaving the presidio/port to march well-escorted. (2) ⭐⭐ Cmdt.-Gen.'s order (via Fages): …". Leaves read: bancarchca_81_16 n174 (stamp 175, ink 43), n175 (stamp 176, ink 44). AUTHOR: field holds 'Doc II-26', a structural tomo-document label, not an author; the leaf names them outright — 'Nicolas Soler á Diego Gonzales' and 'Pedro Fages á Diego Gonzales' (both n174). (The summary does name them.) RECIPIENT: empty; leaf 'á Diego Gonzales' twice, and the third item is headed 'Fages á Borica' (n175). PLACE: field empty, 'Monterey' carried in date_text; leaf '1785 = Abril 13 = Monterey' and '1785 = Julio 1º = Monterey'. DATE: record says 'Apr 15'; at scale=1 the leaf reads 'Abril 13' — the day digit is the same rising-stroke-plus-loop form as the '3' of 'pp = 203 = 6' footed nine lines below, and is not the flat-topped '5' of '1785' on the very same line. Jul 1 and Monterey are right. ORIG_PAGE: recorded '—'; the leaf foots 'pp = 203 = 6' (Soler item) and 'p.ª = 207-8' (Fages discipline order). SAVAGE_PAGE: stamps 175/176 confirmed. SUMMARY: three defects. (1) Mistranslation — leaf 'Ordena que toda partida saliente del Presidio ó Puerto, debe marchar bastimentada por los dias de su ida, detencion y regreso' = provisioned/victualled, not the record's 'to march well-escorted'. (2) Misquote inside quotation marks — leaf reads 'con una libertad viciosa muy perjudicial por los desórdenes escandalosos en que incurren con las indias cristianas y gentiles'; the record prints 'una libertad vecina...' and drops the leaf's 'en las Misiones', which locates the abuse. (3) Item (3) (Reglamento art. 2 tít. 3, sailors as settlers) is a separate document headed '1785 = Julio 1º = Monterey / Fages á Borica', not part of the Fages→Diego González letter the record's header assigns it to. OMISSIONS: none uncovered — all three acts fall inside this record, and ca54-d125 resumes at n176.

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