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Show HISTORY executive as well as judicial capacity, his term was very short, for Governor Bustamante assumed the office on the 2nd of March, 1722, and held the position until the year 1731.**° Governor Bustamante had been in office but a few months when a visitador-general, from the City of Mexico, Captain Antonio Cobian Busto, arrived at the capital ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR for the purpose of making an inJUAN DOMINGO DE BUSTAMANTE vestigation of the affairs of the province. Shortly after the arrival of the visitador-general, a convention was held at Santa Fé, being attended by all the principal men of the province. The order of Franciscans was present, represented by the leading members of the order, who were Fr. Juan de Tagle, comisario del Sancto Oficio and visitador, Fr. Juan de la Cruz, cus- todio and juez eclesidstica, Fr. Juan Sanchez, Fr. Diego Espinosa de los Monteros, Fr. Juan de Mirabal, Fr. Juan:‘Antonio de Celi, Fr. Manuel de Sopefia, Fr. Carlos Delgado, Fr. Juan del Pino, Fr. Francisco Irazabal, Fr. Domingo de Araos, Fr. Francisco Antonio Perez, comisario del Sancto Oficio, Fr. José Antonio Guerra, guardian of the Convent at Santa Fé. This junta was held for the purpose of explaining to the visitador-general, who would make report to the king, why the country from Chihuahua to New Mexico was not fully settled by Spaniards. The convention found a reason in the small number and poverty of the settlers, and the fear of Indian raids. The convention proposed as a remedy the establishment of a presidio of fifty soldiers and two hundred settlers at Socorro, and another presidio of fifty soldiers at Aguatuvi. It was sought to explain to the representative of the crown that the country was rich in metals and well adapted to agriculture and the raising of stock, and that any expenditure of money by the government would be a good i= vestment.*°° 449 During the first year of Bustamante’s rule, Miguel Enriquez was secretary ; Juan Paez Hurtado and Antonio Becerro Nieto were generals. Captain Fran cisco Bueno de Bohorquez y Corcuera was the alealde mayor of the eapital, an among the principal officers of presidios were the Captains Ignacio de Roybal, Diego Arias de Quiros and Lieutenant Francisco Montes y Vigil, many of whose lineal descendants are still living in the counties of Santa Fé and Rio Arriba. 450 Arch. Santa Fé, Ms. 435 In the year 1723 an order from the king was received prohibiting trade with the French in the province of Louisiana. Governor Bustamante also issued orders regulating traffic with the gentile tribes.*®? Under these orders the people of New Mexico were permitted to trade with the gentiles who came to Taos and to Pecos; prior to this order the people had gone out upon the plains to meet the Indians for purposes of trade. In the year 1724 the Utes raided the Jemez country and the Comanches attacked the Jicarilla Apaches, forcing them to give up half of their women and children, and thereafter killing every one except sixty-nine men, two women, and three boys, all of whom were mortally wounded. It was thought as the Jicarillas were by the frailes that inasmuch Christians and the Comanches had been notified of the fact, war upon the Comanches This seems to have been the view taken by Governor was justifiable. Bustamante, for he sent Captain Juan Paez Hurtado, at the head of one hundred men, to take revenge upon them, but as to the outcome of this expedition the records reveal nothing. The activities of the French were a constant source of apprehen- sion on the part of the Spanish authorities, and when, in 1727, Governor Bustamante learned that the French had taken Cuartelejo, he promptly notified the viceroy and proposed that an expedition be sent out to ascertain what the French had done, and asked for troops for this purpose. It does not appear that Bustamante’s proposal was ever carried out, although every effort was made to ascertain from the Indians of the plains just what the French were doing. ‘‘there was a ‘‘In these and later years,’’ says Mr. Bancroft, complicated controversy CONTROVERSY BETWEEN between THE BISHOP the missionary authorities. Durango episcopal and The bishop claimed New of Mexico as part of his bishopric, 1nsisting upon his right to ape, which point a vicar and control ecclesiastic matters in the provinc his visita of 1725, the friars refused to recognize. Bishop Crespo, In OF DURANGO AND THE FRANCISCANS his functions without much opporeached El Paso, and exercised he extended his tour to Santa Fé, when 1730, August, sition; but in confirmation there and at a few of rite the though he administered he was not permitted to do 0, s mission the of some at other towns, Padre Andres the friars objecting by instruction to the custodio, The April, 1723. 451 Arch. Santa Fé. This order was made upo n the 3rd of t because of some New Mexico royal order as to trade with Louisiana came abou to Louisiana and bought $12,000 wor th of goods. traders having gone v and if he acted in an 1700 TO 1822 ered Mogollon, RULE, .d The principal act of Estrada was to preside over the trial of Governor SPANISH eT Juan Domingo de Bustamante. MEXICAN hg ah * San Psd yet * Sot eats Paid eae t. 4°. 4 ier a? . ot be » OF NEW a| FACTS H es eat. LEADING atitier t 434 |