on March 24th the electors met at Monterey and chose four new members for the assembly, also electing Juan Bandini as deputy to congress, with José Antonio Carrillo as substitute.[1] There is no evidence that the body as now constituted ever held any session, or that any session was held in 1833 at all. It would seem that the election of March must have been declared illegal, for October 15th Figueroa ordered a new election to be held according to the Mexican plan of Zavaleta. This election was held the 1st and 2d of December, at Monterey, on the first of which days Bandini was again elected to congress, and on the second the diputacion was renewed by the election of all seven members.[2] They did not meet until May of the following year.
We have seen that a few years earlier orders had come from Mexico to establish a strong garrison in the region north of San Francisco Bay, with a view to protect that frontier from encroachments of foreigners; but nothing had really been effected beyond a slight correspondence and investigation by Echeandía.[3] Figueroa's instructions required him to pay particular attention to the same subject, it being
- ↑ Jan. 3, 1833, ayunt. of Los Angeles resolves to invite others to hold primary elections so that the new gefe may find everything ready. Los Angeles, Arch., MS., iv. 77-8. March 21st, 24th, meetings of the partido electors at Monterey. The vocales elected were: 4th, J. A. Carrillo, 5th, Manuel Crespo, 6th, José Águila, 7th, Tiburcio Tapia; Suplentes, José Perez, F. J. Alvarado, and J. J. Vallejo. Actas de Elecciones, MS., 12-16; Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., xi. 4-5. March 23d, J. J. de la Guerra writes to his father that 'the enlightened' — that is, the electors — are living so scandalously — except his uncle Anastasio Carrillo — that 'even the English' are shocked. Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., iv. 961. This election left Vallejo, Ortega, and Osio as hold-over vocales in the 1st, 2d, and 3d places; but there was a decision from Mexico — Victoria's work? — dated May 17, 1832, that Vallejo as a military officer was not entitled to his seat. Sup. Govt St. Pap., MS., v. 9.
- ↑ Actas de Elecciones, MS., 16-19; Leg. Rec., MS., ii. 226-7. The 7 vocales chosen were: 1. Cárlos Carrillo, 2. Pio Pico, 3. Francisco de Haro, 4. Joaquin Ortega, 5. J. A. Carrillo, 6. J. A. Estudillo, 7. José Castro. Oct. 15th, F.'s order for an election. Dept. St. Pap., Ang., MS., i. 134-6; x. 7-8. Dec. 6th, F. orders surplus municipal funds to be sent in for the dip. Vallejo, Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., ii. 193. Bandini had left S. Diego for Mexico on the Catalina with Echeandía. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxix. 23, 25.
- ↑ Chap. iv. of this volume.
