| OCR Text |
Show eV es ORNS SET ‘ 5 otssi P * * b Trost aS 4 me Fy iF! oF trae oe mt KuNT ad residents who applied for them in order to establish themselves under their protection, limiting this power to ond, in that the royal treasury is prejudiced, his Majesty failing to receive the composition fees for the lands that are apportioned in the four jurisdictional leagues of the the area of four common Presidios. absolute political jurisdiction even in the settlements bordering upon the enemy; the opinion being that it was preJudicial for the Captains and Commandants of Presidios to exercise it with prohibition and without the cognizance of the governors-intendants, and that it was less so, for the power to sell and apportion lands to belong exclusively to them. ‘The first was based on the belief that the residents would be better governed by the judges whom the Intendant would appoint, they would have less distant, the appeal to the latter than the commandaney general in their complaints and grievances, it would cause them no expense to bring their suits, nor would they suffer the vexation and annoyances the military and civil head officials cause them, by proceeding despotically and arbitrarily in their decisions; so that they saw themselves obliged not a few times to abandon their establishments, or they made them leave them by inflicting banishment upon them without hearing them, besides, also, it would better: facilitate the storing of grain, which the troops need, inasmuch, as the Intendant would attend to encour- ¢ ’ 2 t Lee oe oe ee dea oe) Pree peCpe eee Pe ae a Pde Mexico, Puebla, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Pes “ = A PLP x; 7 Fa] PE Fore) pe PS Pee) Guanajuato, Merida de Yucatan, Valladolid, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Vera Cruz, Zacatecas, and Sonora and Sinaloa Each of the foregoing political divisions was to an officer under the name of intendant, who diction in the four departments of justice, police, Be] <5 ff re LPaePte ern eA SE Pepe pea BE Py pe be be titope set eeee PEP e MLir aie oe) oF Fhe) tekrepre ir ee a reeae Fis Californias, was divided into twelve Intendancies, as follows: (Arispe). entrusted had juristreasury, and war, but the intendants of Sonora and Sinaloa (Arispe) and Durango, in matters of justice and police, were subordinate to the commandants general of their provinces, and the other ten to the viceroy, and all of them to the Territorial Audiencias. There was also to be an intendancy general of the army in the City of Mexico, and the intendant general was the a; xtsec8 filled those offices oe of Intendants conferred on those who Under and by virtue of the Ordinance of Intendants of December 4, 1786, New Spain, with the exception of the Fa Pos crown and vacant lands; and on the contrary, the treasury would be deprived of the fees that belong to it. ‘‘Afterwards, there was brought before His Excellency, the Viceroy, the point that said articles of the Ordinance [rubric] ‘*PEDRO DE Nava ‘‘Chihuahua, January 19, 1793.”’ delegate in Mexico of the superintendency general of the royal treasury of the Indies. A superior board of the treasury, to reside in the City of Mexico, was also created and the intendant general was its president. Under Article 81 of the Ordinance of Intendants, these officers were empowered to make sales and compositions of the crown lands of their several provinces. The orig- LPR matter, Para in the PB Ph occur bn that ~# .$744 6-446nd rePivehi Parp ee rarnotes bs > < ek ne J ape 354, transactions ty of the inal proceedings had by them were to be forwarded to the ee cognizance such as are the sales, compositions and apportionments of 4-4-6 they PREP e Fe which PE of lands are apportionment CLL ee the ee to suspend were making under Article I, title II, of the regulations of Presidios; since those articles give to said intendants in the whole territory of their several provinces, exclusive a) a mS Sau oe oe er oe ee POPE ted a ra FSP FR I Fe mk Fs es ants . of Intendants, to the order to the Captains and Command- I or er) 4 e+ rer * ara ee See, Pee a Pe ee ee) ee een re bes ae FA It was restricted substantially, under the provisions of Articles 7, 81, and 306, of said Ordinance is that declaration. Captains and Commandants of Presidios in that Province, to the end that they may report without delay through you (and you will do the same with regard to that of Loreto which is under your charge), whatever occurs and appears to them, together with an individual notice of the settlements contained in the four leagues assigned to each one as its area; and another of the residents and settlers therein, with a statement of the number of persons of both sexes that compose them, besides the troops. ‘‘God preserve you many years. ee re on the consultation that furnished the occasion for making ‘‘In order to comply with the resolution of the Superior Board, you will immediately circulate this order to the dl from the cen- Se leagues, measured ter of the plaza of each one, two to each wind; but to the end that the permanent ruling that is to be observed in the matter may be made in said Superior Board, I was instructed to confer with said Captains and Commandants ae * selling lots and lands to the soldiers and nig continue i a should f.2-9 SES RL aging it among the frontier residents with greater energy than could the captains and commandants; and the sec- a ye ing the provisions of Article 81 of the Royal Ordinance of Intendants, the captains and commandants of presidios 369 rad s a THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 3868 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO FOIE met @ ’ EPL RP ad a P CIEE. FX Fe eed Geter Cand ie Pte BS Fe.Der Ce gun mr i = ge yaaa fea PS TEIN |
