Previously uncatalogued — recovered by the 2026-08-27 coverage audit

Previously uncatalogued — recovered by the 2026-08-27 coverage audit: the document lay inside the declared span of a grouped entry covering n61-n72, which had passed every completeness check while concealing it. Heading verbatim: '+ 1840 Monterey / Jimeno P.te José Z. Fernandez Srio' [= 1840, Monterey. Jimeno President, José Z. Fernández Secretary.] Savage's abstract run of the Junta's ordinary sessions from 21 March to 30 May 1840, running from the foot of n63 to the upper half of n68. Two strands dominate. (1) THE CAPITAL DISPUTE. Mzo 24 (p.369-71): 'Pico reclamó el cumplimiento del decreto de 23 Mayo 1835 que declara por capital del departam.to á la ciudad de Los Angeles; Argüello dijo que existia otra ley mas moderna (30 Dic. 1836 que autoriza al Ejecutivo general para nombrar la capital de California) que si no destruia completam.te aquella no estaba en consonancia con ella.' Mzo 27 (p.372-3): the dictamen on the department's capital approved, Pico protesting. (2) LAND. Abril 3 (p.376): dictamen approved on the contested S. Vicente and Sta Mónica lands claimed by Fran.co Sepúlveda, Máximo Alanís, Fran.co Márquez and Isidro Reyes. Ab.l 9 (p.377): proposition to committee that supreme approval be sought for lands granted within the ten littoral leagues and those recognised as mission lands; Mayo 1 (p.379) that dictamen approved. Mayo 12 (p.382-3): eleven land expedientes to committee; the secretary asked and obtained 1,000 pesos a year. Mayo 19 (p.385-6): 27 expedientes to committee, eight dictámenes approved (Corral de tierra to Fran.co Mesa; Jarro to Hilaria Buelna; Arroyo de la Laguna, granted by Nic.s Gutiérrez, to Gil Sánchez). Mayo 22 (p.387-391): 14 expedientes to committee and 27 dictámenes approving grants, listed by paraje and grantee with dates, including Jamacha to Apolinaria Lorenzana, Agua Caliente to Fulgencio Higuera, El Valle to Ant.o M. Pico with Ant.o Suñol and Agustín and Juan Bernal, Sta Ana y Quien Sabe to Man.l Larios and Juan Mig.l Anzar, Las Pocitas del Valle to José Noriega and Roberto Livermore, El Refugio to María Cándida, María Jacinta and María de los Ángeles, S. Miguelito to Miguel Ávila, Álamos to José Ant.o de la Guerra y Carrillo, San Antonio to Prado Mesa, El Pescadero to Fabián Barreto, Sta Rosa to Francisco Cota, La Cañada de Herrera to Domingo Sáenz, San Felipe y Las Ánimas to Tomás Boon, Sanjones to Gabriel de la Torre, Estero Americano to Manuel Makingtosh, Paguay to cabo Rosario Aguilar, Laureles to Man.l Boronda and Blas Martínez, Las Salinas to Cornelio Bernal, Tamales to José Francisco Snook, Corral de tierra (jurisd. de S. Fran.co) to Tiburcio Vásquez, Corral de Tierra to Francisco Guerrero, La Cañada del Habra to Mariano R. Roldán, Novato to Juan Martín, El Médano to los Sres Mesa, Novato to Fernando Feliz, Piedra Blanca to José de Jesús Pico, and Jurupa to Juan Bandini. Mayo 26 (p.392-4): thirteen further dictámenes ratifying grants, including Rincón de la Punta del Monte to Teodoro González, Rincón de los Esteros to Ignacio Alviso, Bolsa Nueva to Simeón Castro, Chualar to Juan Malarín, Los Nogales to José de la Luz Linares, an ampliación of four sitios de ganado mayor to Antonino Buelna, San José del Sur Chiquito to Marcelino Escobar, Cañada del Portezuelo hasta Los Cayucos to Rafael Villavicencio, Rincón de la Bayona to José Cornelio Bernal, an ampliación asked by Juan Bandini and conceded by Gov. Alvarado, Sta Paula y Saticoy to Manuel Jimeno Casarín, Los Vallecitos to the CC. Alvarado and Sepúlveda, and Los Gatos to Sebastián Peralta and José Hernández. Mayo 29 (p.395-6): approved the grant of the terreno Zayanta made by Man.l Jimeno as interim governor to Man.l Mesa, and agreed to close the ordinary sessions on the 30th. Also here: Mzo 21 (p.366-8) González asking to be relieved as vocal for chronic illness, and Ab.l 28 (p.378) his proposition to prohibit distilling aguardiente from wheat, maize and barley 'por perjudicial á la salud' and the introduction of foreign spirits as harmful to the department's agriculturists, plus leave granted to Castro to go home to take charge of works left pending by prefect José Castro on departing for the capital of the Republic. Mayo 15 (p.384) reads in full 'Sin importancia'. These are Savage's abstracts of the Junta's approvals; the leaves record the Junta ratifying grants, not the grants' later fate.

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