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Show OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY Evangelio province — stating that there were 18 missions 0 ~ 7 Lae (the omissions in his list as per table showing the consolidation effected by Anza), 11 annexes, 24 padres (who are named), 5,508 fam., and for the year 1,254 baptisms, 438 marriages, and 647 deaths, this author making no distinction of races; Revilla Gigedo, Carta de 1798, sobre misiones, 441-2. The report of the custodio, P. Fran. Osio, for 98, as given in Meline’s 2,000 Miles, 208-9. — he Cet 4 PAM eo oe : ea : Lae = + * PCa thes & acting as turn were debtors to or agents for Chihuahua merchants, who thus monopolized all the profits, and nothing was left for New Mexico, except for certain traders, who as alcaldes mayores utilized their political authority for private gain. Padre Morfi’s proposed remedy for these evils was the encouragement of home manu factures by sending artisan teachers and machinery to the province, with @ view to render the inhabitants independent of Chihuahua. His plan was to send criminals of the better class, whose offences were chiefly due to drink an the temptations of a city, from Mexico to the far north, and through them to reform the New Mexican industrial system. ‘*The prices to be paid for some animals and other articles of trade were sometimes fixed by executive order. As early as 1754, Governor Valle determined that the price of a horse should be fixed at 12 to 15 skins, just what sort of skins does not appear; that a piece of cotton cloth, weighing 10 arrobas, was exchangeable for two pack-horses or an iron knife for a skin. _ ‘‘Under no subterfuge or on any account whatsoever were the settler ¢ in his eaponstime permitted to sell to the Indians, mares, mules, asses, or offensive W g and Cate ry — 4 a dag Abe Fal CF yy De 772 : uw << 44y WAG IL y OF heble Cater in fC , Ore Sando && El 2 ‘ ts ee JST, ea * wae Cole horse S * i o ; & % Fe, 176¢ z= i wa orgyot AS an Garrison at Santa a 7) < oe | bak Fac-simile of Muster Roll of Spanish a obtained * ‘ << a Korte AYER Revnit — | $ 7 e730} 4 er 3% Mexico ‘Len 74, y 9% wi Affas eh gd o Cs berate Ee of New Zz Ley <7 The wild tribes to the east and northeast fire-arms as far to the east as Illinois.’’ Pkg ee ee cae Mexico today is absent from the territory, the secretary performs but, officially, is secretary Lerety con- fusion among writers in making up the list of persons who have occupied the position of executive in New Mexico. It was much 80 in these times as it is in the present, for when the governor of New the duties of the executive, : ik oc bet Sae. 2 tml hrte ® has led to some 2 Gh et oo — ; . _ Cf Poe oe ae system 7 Rate PEE * Grp ae oe Demin Yuta tre diffe 2D cnn = This ey ee Vesimnow> * in his place as acting governor. &.ee a Setstscs Cae Governor Chacon relinquished his office in the spring of 1805 and was succeeded by Colonel Joaquin del Real Alencastre, who held the office until 1812, although it COLONEL JOAQUIN DEL REAL ALENappears that Alberto Mainez CASTRE APPOINTED GOVERNOR served as acting governor during a part of the years 1807-8. Subsequent to the creation of the office of comandante-general of the Provincias Internas, there was always a governor or an acting governor at Santa Fé, subordinate to the comandante-general. That a given person appears in the records as acting governor does not necessarily imply that the office of governor was not occupied; if, for any reason, the governor left the province, some person served a ie cok Pht aos cy eS, eRRb ee does not show more than half the real population. Jlerbe (Joaquin) Estado de las Missiones, 1788, Ms., in Pinart col., the writer — provincial of the Sto, aT . 4 FACTS i SS aehy eS bed rag Lot et..% hie SeeoJ aot he tes Ss a wraeue * ha » LEADING 1760, Ms., in which the bishop expresses the opinion that the padron of Sta. Fé aan Ui VO, 456 |