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CHAPTER XV.

RULE OF GUTIERREZ AND CHICO.
1836.

CASTRO TRANSFERS THE GEFATURA TO GUTIERREZ A QUIET RULE CENTRALIST PRECAUTIONS THE CAPITAL VIGILANCE COMMITTEE AT Los ANGELES SHOOTING OF A MAN AND WOMAN BANDINI .S PLAN AT SAN DIEGO APPOINTMENT AND ARRIVAL OF GOVERNOR CHICO INAUGURAL ADDRESSS WEARING OF THE BASES CHICO S ORDERS ADDRESS SESSIONS OF THE JUNTA DEPARTAMENTAL AGENT FOR MEXICO CHICO IN THE SOUTH BEGINNING OF TROUBLES CALIFORNIAN VIEWS OF CHICO S CHARACTER DONA CRUZ, THE GOVERNOR S MISTRESS FEELING OF FOREIGNERS CHICO AND STEARNS REVOLUTION PLANNED RESULTS OF THE VlGILANTS ClIICO AND DURAN AMOURS OF CASTANARES AND DONA ILDEFONSA CHICO AND ESTRADA EXCITEMENT AT THE CAPITAL CHICO LEAVES THE COUNTRY.

I TAKE up again the thread of political annals dropped at the end of 1835.^[1] In accordance with a prevalent desire of the Californians, Figueroa at his death had separated the political and military commands, intrusting the latter, according to army regulations, to the ranking officer Lieutenant-colonel Nicolas Gutierrez, and the former, according to a Mexican law of somewhat doubtful application to a territory, to Jose Castro, as senior vocal of the diputacion. The only objection had come from the south in behalf of Jose Antonio Estudillo of San Diego, who was really the senior vocal, but was absent from the capital on account of illness. Estudillo was doubtless entitled to the position of gefe politico ad interim, and the prospective honor may have done

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1. See chap. x. of this volume.