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CHAPTER IX.
FIGUEROA S RULE HIJAR AND PADRES COLONY.
1833-1834.
ARRIVAL OF FIG UEROA PRIMITIVE PRINTING IMAGINARY DIFFICULTIES AMNESTY TO REBELS ECHEANDIA AND ZAMORANO BIOGRAPHY OF ECHEANDIA BANDINI ELECTED TO CONGRESS No SESSIONS or THE DIPUTACION IN 1833 THE NORTHERN FRONTIER FIGUEROA RESIGNS A WARNING MUTINY AT SAN FRANCISCO THE DIPUTACION IN 1834 ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN CALIFORNIA REGLAMENTO PETALUMA AND SANTA ROSA SANTA ANNA Y FARIAS CONSPIRACY OF GFERRA AND DURAN NEW ELECTION EVENTS IN MEXICO PADRES AND HIS SCHEMES COLONIZATION HIJAR AS GEFE POLITICO COLONY ORGANIZED COMPANIA CosMOPOLITANA POLITICAL SCHEMES THE MARCH TO TEPIC VOYAGE OF THE NATALIA AND MORELOS RECEPTION OF THE COLONY AT SAN DIEGO AND MONTEREY WRECK OF THE NATALIA AUTHORITIES.
THE new ruler arrived at Monterey by the Catalina January 14, 1833, landing and taking possession of his command the next day.[1] With him came Captain Francisco Figueroa, his brother, Captain Nicolas Gutierrez, lieutenants Bernardo Navarrete and Rafael Gonzalez the latter to take charge of the custom house Surgeon Manuel Alva, about thirty soldiers, and ten friars from the college of Zacatecas, who came to reenforce the Fernanclinos. On the day of arrival, and apparently before landing, Figueroa addressed communications to the various local authorities, announcing his appointment, and intention to devote all his energies to the welfare
- ↑ Figueroa s letter written in March. Dept. St. Pap., MS., iii. 103. Rather strangely, there is in the archives no more definite record of his formal assumption of the command on Jan. 15th than this and the announcement mentioned in my next note.
