Address On the History of California, From the Discovery of the Country to ...

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Address On the History of California, From the Discovery of the Country to ...
Edmund Randolph
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This was represented by the Governor to the Viceroy, who in the end told Castro to select some other place ; and the Mis- sion kept La Bbea. We see with what jealousy, and how eflfectively, the Fathers vindicated the title of themselves and their Indian pupils to their California.
For a complete view of the internal constitution of Califor- nia at that day, two facts, which are exceptional to this ecclesi- astical domination require to be noted.
In 1791, Pedro Nava commandante of the Internal P
...rovin- ces of the West, in a decree dated at Chihuahua, gives to the Captains commanding Presidios, or recognizes as already ex- isting in them, authority to grant building lots to the soldiers and other residents, within the space of four square leagues. I do not know, but presume, that this power was exercised at San Diego, Santa Barbara and Monterey, and hence the origin of the towns bearing those names, which at a later period come into view as such. At San Francisco however there is nothing, in the Archives or elsewhere yet discovered, to show that such a grant was ever made by the Captain of the Presidio.

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