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Show SPANISH RULE, 1700 TO 1822 473 favored and demanded not only a reorganization of the military service, including payment to the citizen soldiery, but the establighment of five new garrisons on the north and east, transfer ring soldiers from the south for that purpose. He says that the American people, advised as to the neglect of New Mexico by the mother country, were trying in various ways, by offers of liberal and protecti ng laws, advantageous commerce and other attractive measures, to secure the assistance of the people of New Mexico with a view of joining the province to Louisiana which had been but lately acquired from the French. He also said that the Americans now had much to pay his expenses, but on reaching Salvador Leiva y Chavez, and Bartolomé Fernandes, clerk, who died on the voyage. During the last years of Spanish rule, the population nearly doubled. The Pueblo Indians made a very slight increase in their numbers, THE LAST YEARS OF SPANISH RULE of the according to the report custodio, P. José Pedro Rubi, there being in the year 1821 hine thousand and thirty-four of the latter. The report of Governor Melgares in 1819 and 1820 gives the Spanish population at twentyeight thousand four hundred and thirty-six. There are several a > . es Lae acs > a Al to Mexico a r% sent M was ees dollars Vera Cruz, he could obtain of this sum only enough to pay the expenses of his journey to that point. He wrote a letter to the Cértes, explaining why he did not come, and complained that the decrees of that body in response to his Exposicion, though confirmed by royal order of May 9, 1813, had not been carried into effect. On his former trip to Spain he was accompanied by his grandson, Juan de los Reyes Vaca y Pino, a youth of eleven years, the retired soldier i ee PR owe be- . oat them A succeeded in making oe and had 2 the Indians * influence with heve that the Spaniards were not invincible. Through the influence of the clergy in New Mexico, Pino embodied in his report a request for a separate bishopric, with a college and a system of schools to be supported by the tithes. He also asked for a civil and criminal audiencia at Chihuahua, that of Guadalajara being too far away to be of any practical benefit to New Mexico. The establishment of the bishopric was ordered the following year, but other than this small attention seems to have been given to his demands. Pino was reélected for the years 1820-21, and the sum of six thousand |