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CHAPTER XII.

MISSION AND INDIAN AFFAIRS.
1834-1835.

EMANCIPATION INDIAN PUEBLOS THE DIPUTACION FIGUREOA S POLICY MEXICAN LAW OF APRIL 1834 PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS OF AUGUST OTH HIJAR S INSTRUCTIONS THEIR MEANING THE REGLAMEN T TO INPRACTICELOCAL RESULTS TEN MISSIONS SECULARIZED VIEWS OF THE PADRES SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS OF Nov. 4TH DESTRUCTION OF MISSION PROPERTY BY THE FRIARS SLAUGHTER OF CATTLE STIPENDS IN 1835 MISSION SUPPLIES MISSION RANCHOS GARC!A DIEGO S SUGGESTIONSLOCAL ITEMS OF 1835 Six MISSIONS SECULARIZED THE FERNANDINOS CONTENT MEXICAN DECREE OF Nov. OTH MISSION STATISTICS, 1831-5 SEASONS PESTILENCE INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1831-5.

THERE is no positive record that Figueroa s emancipatory experiments had led to the foundation of any other Indian pueblo than that at San Juan Capistrano before the end of 1833. It is possible, however, that two others were founded before that date, San Dieguito by the ex-neophytes of San Diego, and Las Flores by those of San Luis Hey. At any rate, Figueroa in his opening address before the diputacion, May 1, 1834, stated that the three pueblos had not only been established, but were flourishing, the difference between the condition of the townsmen and of the neophytes being already noticeable.^[1] And this is all that is known of secularization in the first quarter of the year.

In his discourse the governor recapitulated his past efforts, and announced that the results of his plan of gradual emancipation, though impeded by his other

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1. Figueroa, Discurso de Apertura, 183^ MS.