✓ opening VERIFIED vs scan n42 (2026-07-06): date/place/addressee confirmed; the 20 Mar 1829 expulsion-of-Spaniards law, of the 9 secular Spaniards passports were extended to 7 (per relación Nº1), the other two not removed — one 'es Casado con [los] nominados en la relación, y con hijos' (married w/ children), 'y el otro Luis Castro es viejo.' *(The friar-exemption argument + governance lament are on the n43–46 continuation, not yet re-read.)* report on applying the 20 Mar 1829 expulsion-of-Spaniards law in California — of 9 secular Spaniards, passports issued to 7 (2 exempt: one married w/ children, Luis Castro old & infirm); ⭐⭐⭐ the 27 Spanish ecclesiastics are ALL mission friars and cannot be expelled — only 3 Mexican replacement friars in 3 years, so expulsion would mean spiritual/temporal collapse — and the Indians ('cuatro quintas partes de la Población') would suffer most; + a lament on California's stalled governance, the 'insignificant' Diputados, and the human cost of expelling married men
| Date | 1829-08-11 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | José Mª Echeandía (San Diego) |
| To | Minister of Relaciones |
| Series | State Papers, Sacramento |
| Tomo | X–XIX (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | 440–456 |
| Savage copy page | 43–47 |
| Scan leaf | n42–46 |
| Document type | abstract (corr.) |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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José Mª Echeandía (San Diego) to Minister of Relaciones, 1829-08-11, State Papers, Sacramento, X–XIX, 440–456, Archives of California, C-A 56, 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 X–XIX]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/ca56/ca56-d72.html