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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... twenty-four settlers and fiftynine soldiers, and to obtain them Rivera was allowed to go beyond the limits of the Provincias Internas, as far as Guadalajara if necessary. Twenty-five of the new recruits were to fill the places of those taken from the presidios, so that only thirty-four soldiers were to go to California. These and the twenty-four settlers must be married men, accompanied by their families, healthy and robust, likely to lead regular lives, and to set a good example to the natives. The settlers must include a mason, a carpenter, and a blacksmith. All must bind themselves to ten years' service. Female relatives of the pobladores, if unmarried, should be encouraged to accompany the families with a view to marriage with bachelor soldiers "This, strangely enough, docs not agree exactly with the regulation, which offers 110 per year for two years and 00 for the next three, these sums including rations; neither was the pay to begin according to the reglamento, until the giant of a lot in one of the pueblos. "These were lieutenants Alonso Villaverde and Diego Gonzalez, and alfercces Mariano Carrillo, Manuel Garcia Ruiz, and Ramon Lasso de la Vega, ono alferez remaining to be appointed after consultation with Gov. Neve. Lieut. Jos5 Ziiiliga was a little later substituted for Villaverde, who never came to California; Alfcrcz Jose Dario Argiiello was also sent in place of Ruiz; and Jose Velasquez was appointed to fill the vacant place of the fourth alferez. already in California. The rendezvous for the whole company was to be at Alamos, except such as might be obtained in Guadalajara, who were to go by sea from San Bias. From Alamos the recruits and their families were to be forwarded by sea or land as might be...