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MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.
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follows: Antonio Buelna, Salvador Espinosa, Marcelino Escobar, Manuel Jimeno Casarin, David Spence, José Ramon Estrada, Estévan Munrás, Simeon Cas-


    ranchos. Full record of meetings in Monterey, Actas del Ayunt., MS., 23-43. Felipe Arceo for being concerned in the death of Timoteo Lorenzana has to pay $25 to the widow. Gabriel Espinosa sentenced to work 2 months for Mariano Castro for taking his horse. Mont. Arch., MS., vi. 1-2. April, J. M. Ramirez arraigned for death of Gomez. Dept. Rec., MS., ix. 10. April-May, Atanasio, Aguilar, and Sagarra shot for stealing. Sept., several men ask for license to hunt wild cattle in the Gavilan Mts. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. y J., MS., iii. 21.

    1832. Alcalde, Salvador Espinosa; regidores, Joaquin Alvarado, José M. Castillo, José Aguilar, and Santiago Moreno; síndico, Manuel Jimeno Casarin (excused as not being for 5 years a resident). Only the sess. of Jan. 1st for installation of the new ayunt., Mont. Actas, MS., 43-4, and the organization in Dec. for a new election, Mont. Arch., MS., vii. 39, are recorded. In March, on account of non-payment of duties on brandy the school had to be closed.

    1833. Alcalde, Marcelino Escobar; regidores, José Aguilar (or Ávila ?) Santiago Moreno, Pedro Castillo (succeeded in Aug. by Simeon Castro, who was unwilling to serve, but was required to do so), and Antonio Romero; síndico, Santiago Estrada; Francisco Perez Pacheco, treasurer; comisario de policia, 1st cuartel, José M. Aguila, suplente Antonio de Sta Cruz; 2d cuartel, Ignacio Acedo, supl. Felipe Vasquez; cap. of the port, Juan Malarin. Munic. finance, balance Jan. 1st $68; receipts for year $892; expend, school $238; sec. ayunt. and dip. $325, porter $60, prisoners $188, office exp. of ayunt. $30, miscell. $128, síndico's percentage on receipts $26, Ind. working on the road $29, total $1,036. Doc. Hist. Cal., MS., i. 77-8; Mont. Arch., vii. 40-2. Jan. 4th-11th police regulations in 18 art. Id.; Dept. St. Pap., MS., iii. 159-63; Id., Mont., ii. 13-17. Jan. 10th, division of the town into 2 cuarteles, and appointment of police. Id., 22. Jan, 27th, prosecution of Sergt Solórzano for entering the prison of a woman and causing scandal. St. Pap. Sac., MS., x. 21. March, prisoners have nothing to eat, ayunt. asked for 1 meal per day. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. & J., MS., iii. 87. April, a cabin boy of the Catalina sent to S. Blas to be tried for assault on the mate. Id., B. M., lxxix. 35-6. July, choice of a regidor to succeed Castillo, who went to S. F. as receptor. Id., Ben., P. & J., v. 43. Sept., estimate of ayunt. expenses for a year $988. Mont. Arch., MS., xvi. 44.

    1834. Alcalde Manuel Jimeno Casarin; regidores, Simeon Castro, Antonio Romero, John B. Cooper, and José Joaquin Gomez (from July); síndico José Aguila; sec. José M. Maldonado, and later José M. Mier y Teran; capt of the port Malarin. Jan., plans and estimates submitted for casas consistoriales. Dept. St. Pap., Ben., P. & J., MS., vi. 49. Feb., police regulations. Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxi. 68. Liquor tax in March-April $215. Dept. St. Pap., B. M., MS., lxxvi. 3. May, Marcos Juarez, a soldier, tried by mil. court for robbing the storehouse, and sentenced to 5 years' work at Sta Rosa on the northern frontier. Id., lxxxviii. 22-3. June, Joaquin Aliaro and Gertrudis Garibay accused of murder of the soldier Encarnacion Hernandez. No result recorded. Id., 9-18. A boy put in prison for rape on a child. St. Pap. Sac., MS., xiv. 44. June 28th, boundaries fixed by gov. provisionally, so vaguely as to be of no value. St. Pap., M. & C., MS., ii. 220. Nov., assembly grants a secretary to the ayunt. at $20 salary, the síndico having served. Leg. Rec., ii. 210. A vagrant sentenced to 8 months of 'colonizacion en el territorio.' Mont. Arch., MS., i. 32.

    1833. Alcaldes David Spence and Rafael Gonzalez; regidores, John Cooper, Joaquin Gomez, Rafael Gomez, Wm Hartnell, Jesus Vallejo, and Salvador Espinosa. (Fran. P. Pacheco is mentioned in Oct.); síndico, Miguel