Dictamen on the seizure of the American frigate *Cromo[?]* — repeats the Viceroy's 19 Feb order

Dictamen on the seizure of the American frigate *Cromo[?]* — repeats the Viceroy's 19 Feb order: if the *Cromo* reaches their districts, secure its cargo in deposit, make a formal inventory, hold the ship in the bay, arrest the captain/master/supercargo & crew, seize the navigation papers, take their depositions promptly & separately so they cannot collude — to establish the voyage's true provenance & objects and whether they violated the King's orders & the treaties of Peace, Limits & Navigation with the United States or meant to run contraband; remit all to the Viceroy with a report. A detailed foreign-ship interdiction protocol

Date	1808-12-07 (exact)
From	[Fiscal] de Real Hacienda (México)
To	Viceroy
Series	State Papers, Sacramento
Tomo	VI–IX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo)
Original tomo page	p.i.~737–774
Savage copy page	135–137
Scan leaf	n134–n136
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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[Fiscal] de Real Hacienda (México) to Viceroy, 1808-12-07, State Papers, Sacramento, p.i.~737–774, Archives of California, C-A 55, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [page interpolated; verify at the leaf] [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within VI–IX]

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