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. License to Fr. Mariano Belda y Costello to return to Spain, having 
completed his twelve years’ service in the California missions. 
1804. 10 ff. 
. Request for half-pay by Sergeant Mariano Castro, a retired soldier 
of Monterrey. June, 1802. 22 ff. 
. Trial of Mariano Iriarte, soldier of the company of cavalry of 
Monterrey. 1804. 47 ff. 
. Request of the alférez of San Diego for pay as alavardero. Sept. 25, 
E707 pen the 
. Expediente concerning the cultivation of hemp in California. 1799- 
1810. 136 ff. 
(Constable Joaquin Sanchez had been commissioned to give instruction in 
its cultivation from 1799 to I8Io.) 
. Request of several religious to have correspondence carried free, 
appealing to the law of Mar. 22, 1773. 1773-1809. 18 ff. 
. Royal orders of Mar. 28, 1794, Feb. 3, 1795, and July 3, 1818, to the 
effect that Spanish vessels carrying national products to California 
should be exempt from all duties. 1820. 12 ff. 
. Acknowledgment by the commissary of Loreto of the receipt of 
instructions of the viceroy for keeping and rendering accounts. 
Correspondence. Aug. 24,1775. 9 ff. 
. Bills for goods sent to the haciendas of Ybarra and Los Amoles, 
belonging to the Pious Fund of Californias. Aug. 22,1820. 22 ff. 
. Request of Fr. Baldomero Lopez, guardian of the College of San 
Fernando, that the arrears of sinodos due the religious of Cali- 
fornias be paid. 1819. 12 ff. 
(He states that the amount due has become so great that there is general 
discontent. ) 
. Accounts of the expenditures on the fort of La Punta y Guijarros. 
1804. 18 ff. 
. Request (and refusal thereof) of Francisco Aranjo that he be ex- 
empted from an examination for title of “ physician”. 1804. 4 ff. 
. San Blas and California. 
. Construction of a flat-boat (barca plana) in the dockyards of San 
Blas for the port of San Diego. 1803. 52 ff. 
(Related documents to 1817.) 
. License to return to Spain granted to Fr. Luis Velasco of the College 
of San Fernando. 1816. 7 ff. 
. Approval by the viceroy of the impost of 6 pesos per barrel on mescal 
imported into California imposed by the habilitado of Monterrey. 
1817. 109 ff. 
. Representation by the governor of California to the effect that 
mescal should not be allowed on vessels which carry supplies 
(memorias) to that province. Related correspondence. 1798- 
1803. 19 ff. 
(This document and no. 7 of the same volume treat of the mescal monopoly 
of Tepic.) 
. Order to send to Guadalajara 25 pairs of useless pistols from the 
presidio of Santa Barbara. Correspondence with Governor Arri- 
llaga. 1817. 8 ff. 
g. Reimbursement by the commissary of San Blas to the presidio of 
Loreto of money spent for the aid of certain vessels. 1800. 91 ff. 
