Page:History of California, Volume 3 (Bancroft).djvu/319

CHAPTER XI.

MISSIONS AND SECULARIZATION.
1831-1833.

EcHEANDfA s PLAN OF 1830 DECREE OF 1831 THE COMISIONADOS VlEWS OF THE PADRES CARRILLO S EFFORTS IN MEXICO THE Pious FUND EVENTS OF 1832 DlPUTACION AND FRIARS ECHEANDIA s PvEGLAMENTO XOTES OF PADRE SANCHEZ BACHELOT AND SHORT EXILES FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS NEW MISSIONARIES IN 1833 THE ZACATECANOS DIVISION OF THE MISSIONS TROUBLES IN THE NORTH FLOGGING NEOPHYTES SUPPLIES FOR SAN FRANCISCO MISCONDUCT OF PADRE MERCADO AT SAN RAFAEL MASSACRE OF GENTILES FIGUEROA S INSTRUCTIONS ON SECULARIZATION ECHEANDIA S REGULATIONS FIGUEROA S POLICY EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOUTH PROVISIONAL RULES EMANCIPATION IN PRACTICE PROJECTS OF PRESIDENT DURAN FIGUEROA S REPORT AGAINST SECULARIZATION MEXICAN DECREES OF 1833 PRESIDENT AND PREFECT.

MOST important of general matters for the half-decade, after or even before political events and an nals of the colony, is the affairs of the missions, especially in the phase of secularization. So closely is this subject connected with the general history of the territory, that I have been obliged frequently to give it more than mere passing mention in the last four chapters; yet it is absolutely necessary, at the cost of some slight repetition, to treat the matter separately and fully. As a fitting introduction, I refer the reader to what I have written on secularization for the preceding period of 1826-30, including Echeandia s instructions, policy, and efforts.^[1] I also append in a note the substance of Echeandia s plan, as ap-

---

1. See chap. iv., this volume.