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CHAPTER XXIV.
LOCAL ANNALS OF MONTEREY DISTRICT.
1831-1840.
POPULATION VISITS AND DESCRIPTIONS SUMMARY AND INDEX OF EVENTS MILITARY RECORD MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE PREFECTURE CRIMINAL RECORD PRIVATE RANCHOS MISSION SAN CARLOS SAN Luis OBISPO PADRE GIL Y TABO ADA STATISTICS OF DECLINE SAN MIGUEL PADRE JUAN CABOT POPULATION AND PROPERTY SAN ANTONIO SECULARIZATION MERCADO S COMPLAINTS HARTNELL S INSPECTION LA SOLEDAD PADRE SARRIA INVENTORIES OF LIVE-STOCK AND CROPS SAN JUAN BAUTISTA OR SAN JUAN DE CASTRO-PADRES AND NEOPHYTES MISSION ESTATE EMANCIPATION OF THE INDIANS PUEBLO AND CAPITAL OF THE DISTRICT SANTA CRUZ, OR PUEBLO DE FlGUEROA VlLLA DE BRANCIFORTE.
THE population of gente de razon in the Monterey district, including Branciforte and seven missions, may be regarded, on authority that is tolerably satisfactory, as having increased from 1,100 at the be ginning to 1,600 at the end of the decade. Of the latter number 700 lived at Monterey, 550 at the ranches of the district, 250 at and about Branciforte, 50 at San Juan, and 50 at all the other missions.[1] There were perhaps 75 foreigners who may be re-
- ↑ The Monterey, Padron, 1836, MS. , shows a pop. in the town of 255 men, 146 women, and 293 children, total 694, of whom about 30 Ind. and 42 foreigners; on 28 ranchos 206 men, 105 women, and 270 children, total 581, of whom 65 Ind. and 15 foreigners; total 1,180 gente de razon (including 57 foreigners) and 95 Ind. The same doc. with slight variations in Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxii. 10 et seq. In Id., xxxi. 76, is a padron of 1834, showing 1,049 persons in 146 families or households, 43 being foreigners, 52 Ind., and 96 militares. In Id., 250, is a list, apparently incomplete, of 145 voters, including 5 naturalized foreigners. For Branciforte we have nothing earlier than 1845, when a padron shows 294 Cal. and Mex., 56 foreigners, and 120 Ind. Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., ii. 218, For S. Juan, Mofras gives a pop. of 100 in J842,
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