⚠ NOT A RECOVERY — RETRACTED CLAIM, 2026-08-27. This was published as a recovery; independent verification showed the document IS already catalogued (it duplicates the Plan de San Diego record in this volume). The row is retained as a CORRECTION to that record, because the verification did establish two real facts: the Plan begins on this leaf (stamped 338 / ink 336), not where the older record places it, and the older record's incipit has transcription errors against the leaf. Original recovery text follows for the record: this document lay inside the span of a grouped entry covering n322-n341, which passed every coverage check while concealing it. Heading verbatim: '= Copia. - Ciudds Mejicanos situados en el Alto Territo de las Cals -' [= Copy. Mexican citizens residing in the Upper Territory of the Californias.] THE PLAN OF SAN DIEGO ITSELF, underlined in the manuscript with a cross in the left margin, beginning on n340 and NOT on n322 where the record places it. Opens 'Si la empresa qe tomamos fuese dirijida a contrariar las disposiciones de las leyes; si el aventurarnos contra los escandalos cometidos pr el actual gobernante Dn Manuel Victoria, y si nuestros hechos fuesen guiados pr un objeto indigno de los sentimtos patrios, desde luego, no solo temeriamos, sino qe conoceriamos las fatales concecuencias'. Continues on n341: they are 'guiados pr el sendero de la justicia, animados pr el amor de nuestro suelo, respetando debidamte las leyes qe dicto nuestra Suprema legislacion', forced to act 'pr el criminal abuso de infraccion qe en contrario se advierte en el espresado gefe'; they insist 'Sabemos qe intentamos, no contra el Spmo Gbno, ni contra los magistrados, y si estamos sumamte convencidos qe procedemos contra un individuo qe viola las bases fundamentales de nuestro actual sistema, o dandole el verdadero sentido contra un tirano qe seguramente bajo el aspecto de la hipocresia ha [engañado, the word is struck and corrected] a los Supremos poderes pa conseguir el rango hasta el cual, sin ser acreedor, se ve elevado.' Continues past the band onto n342: their objects are 'desterrar los vicios que con acelerados pasos va tomando el actual gobernante contra el sistema liberal'; they will prove before the Soberania Nacional that what 'se quiere llamar sedicion pr el infractor de las leyes' is nothing of the kind; they expect the step to be 'apoyado y pr consiguiente bien sostenido pr todos los qe moran este desgraciado pais'; and they turn to the position of the serving military officers. NOTE: the leaf calls itself 'Copia', so this is Savage copying a certified copy, not the original signed instrument.
| Date | no dateline at the head of the text. Savage's caption on the preceding blank verso n339 reads 'en 29. de Novre y 1 de Dic. 1831', and the Dominguez covering oficio directly above dates the pronouncement to the night of 29 November. (year) |
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| From | the pronunciados of the Presidio of San Diego, addressed to the Mexican citizens of Alta California |
| Place | Presidio de San Diego (per the covering oficio) |
| Series | Legislative Records |
| Tomo | I |
| Original tomo page | p.336 |
| Savage copy page | 338 [stamp] / 336 [ink] |
| Scan leaf | n340 |
| Document type | acta / abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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