The ayuntamiento in session with the citizens discussed the propositions of the plan, referred them to a committee, and finally decided by a plurality of votes that it had no authority to act in such a matter, and that Gallardo must apply elsewhere for support — in fact, according to one record the ayuntamiento went so far as to disapprove the plan, though having no army with which to enforce its disapproval. A committee consisting of Guirado, Osio, and Ossa was sent to communicate the decision and to request the pronunciados to remove their force across the river. This they declined to do, but promised to preserve the peace, and held their position until about four o'clock in the afternoon. Pio Pico and Antonio M. Osio, both of whom were in town on this eventful day, assert that the rebels were waiting for money that had been promised but was not forthcoming.[1] However this may have been, at about the hour mentioned Gallardo and Castillo respectfully informed the ayuntamiento that as
- ↑ Osio, Hist. Cal., MS., 236-8; Pico, Hist. Cal., MS., 50-5. Robinson, Life in Cal., 164-7, gives a full narrative with a translation of the pronunciamiento. Other accounts in Alvarado, Hist. Cal., MS., iii. 1-5; Fernando, Cosas de Cal., MS., 80-2; Vallejo, Remin., MS., 55-6; Botillo, Anales, MS., 15-16; Ávila, Notas, MS., 10-11; Ord, Ocurrencias, MS., 66; Galindo, Apuntes, MS., 30; Tuthill's Hist. Cal., 138-9. Nearly all represent this as a revolt in the interests of the colony or its directors. In Los Angeles, Hist., 14, it is spoken of as a revolt of Torres and Apalatey to place Ijar at the head of affairs.
solved as follows: Art. 1. Gen. José Figueroa is declared unworthy of public confidence; and therefore the first alcalde of the capital will take charge provisionally of the political power; and Capt. Pablo de la Portilla of the military command as the ranking officer in accordance with army regulations. Art. 2. The resolutions of the dip. on regulations for the administration of missions are declared null and void. Art. 3. The very rev. missionary fathers will take exclusive charge of the temporalities of their respective missions as they have done until now, and the comisionados will deliver the documents relating to their administration to the friars, who will make the proper observations. Art. 4. By the preceding article the powers of the director of colonization to act according to his instructions from the sup. govt are not interfered with. Art. 5. This plan is in every respect subject to the approval of the gen. govt. Art. 6. The forces that have pronounced will not lay down their arms until they see the preceding articles realized, and they constitute themselves protectors of an upright administration of justice and of the respective authorities.' It nowhere appears who were the signers of the plan, if any, in addition to Gallardo and Castillo. All the copies close with the note 'here the signatures.' Figueroa devotes p. 134-46 of his Manifiesto to a series of arguments in reply to the successive articles of the plan, exhibiting very much more of skill and satire and anger than the subject deserved.
