The customs revenue for the year was from $8,000 to $11,000, so far as may be determined from the records.[1] Vessels seem to have paid duties in accordance with the plan of 1824 and the subsequent action of the diputacion abolishing the duty on exported produce after January 1st, though the governor, owing to a 'forgetfulness which was natural,' neglected to publish the decree until March.[2] Echeandía's only action on commercial matters was a decree by which all trade was forbidden except at the four presidial ports, to the great inconvenience of the missionary traders. A little later, however, San Pedro was excepted, to accommodate the citizens of Los Angeles.[3]
Several of the foreign residents married hijas del país this year, but none did much else that calls for notice. Of new arrivals only about twenty names are known, of which number most are but visitors, chiefly masters of vessels; and only six have any claim to be considered as pioneer residents. John Burton, Robert Livermore, and Alpheus B. Thompson are the prominent names; but in the case of each there is a degree of uncertainty respecting the exact year of arrival, as fully explained elsewhere.[4]
The winter of 1824-5 was marked by an unprece-
- ↑ The amount is given as $8,014 and elsewhere as $11,036, in Dept St. Pap. Ben. Cust. H., MS., i. 101-2, 212. Duties at Sta Bárbara, $1,220. Prov. St. Pap. Ben. Mil., MS., lvi. 1. Amount at S. Francisco, $1,061; at S. Diego, $471. Probably $11,000 was the total, and $8,000 the amount at Monterey.
- ↑ Dept Rec., MS., i. 115.
- ↑ E.'s decree of Dec. 15th, in S. Antonio, Doc. Sueltos, MS., 101-3; S. José, Arch., MS., vi. 23; Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxviii. 82; Dept St. Pap., MS., i. 94. Dec. 20th, S. Pedro excepted. Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxviii. 83. Complaint that S. Diego did not get its share of the revenue. Guerra, Doc., MS, v. 201-2.
- ↑ See Pioneer Register at the end of these volumes, ii.-v., for the names of all, including visitors. The pioneers proper of 1825, besides Burton, Livermore, and Thompson, are Fisher the negro, William Gralbatch, and James Grant. Of old residents, W. E. P. Hartnell and Wm. A. Richardson were married; Daniel Hill was baptized; and Capt. Henry Gyzelaar is said by Phelps — Fore and Aft, 242-3 — to have been drowned in Russian River, though it may have been a year or two later.
second of the four voyages. Notices of Morrell's visit in the archives. St. Pap. Sac., MS., x. 11, 14; xiv. 37; Dept St. Pap., MS., i. 64-5. Blundering notice of the voyage in Taylor's L. Cal., 43.
