NOT A RECOVERY — RETRACTED CLAIM, 2026-08-27. This was published as a recovery

Legislative Records, tomo I · BANC MSS C-A 59, document 72

⚠ 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.

Dateno 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)
Fromthe pronunciados of the Presidio of San Diego, addressed to the Mexican citizens of Alta California
PlacePresidio de San Diego (per the covering oficio)
SeriesLegislative Records
TomoI
Original tomo pagep.336
Savage copy page338 [stamp] / 336 [ink]
Scan leafn340
Document typeacta / abstract
SourceSavage abstract

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This entry is not citable as a document. The catalogue withdraws or qualifies it, so read the note above and follow it to the record that supersedes it. No citation is offered here on purpose.
The originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
See something wrong? Corrections are reviewed against the leaf and published in the errata register on this very page, with credit.
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