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city into wards, with a ward captain to supervise and have complete charge over his area. He enjoined the citizens to avoid burning trash, making open fires, discharging firearms, or giving occasion for unnecessary alarm. The instructions were repeated more in detail in January, 1814. Curfew was to be strictly observed, and persons out after curfew were to show a pass. Heads of families were to be responsible for keeping their women at home. Only with special permission could liquor be sold, and dances and other public festivities held. Change of residence was to be reported to the Cabildo. Shooting or yelling was forbidden at any time.• Amnesty for ln.mrgents. Shortly after the departure of Arredondo from San Antonio,·conditions made imperative a more conciliatory policy towards the Insurgents. The food shortage demanded as many cultivators as possible. A proclamation of amnesty was, therefore, issued in October of 1813, extending a conditional pardon to all those who had fled from the province with the forces of Gutierrez and Toledo. It has been stated- with how much truth it is impossible to judge-that this measure was in response to repeated pleas by many who were living in the Neutral Ground and Louisiana. For Gutierrez and Toledo, however, a price of 500 pesos was offered and a reward of 250 pesos, for the arrest of Davenport.' But the rebels did not always prove themselves worthy of the pardon. Officials in San Antonio soon complained that the pardoned Insurgents in the city continued to spread their dangerous doctrines and aided Ameri- can prisoners to escape. It was suggested that they be moved to other provinces in the interior of Mexico, where thus displaced they would not be so extensively connected or so close to the frontier of the United States and the influence of active Revolutionists. The suggestion was approved. Instructions were issued for the leaders to be transplanted with their families and property to the interior of Mexico. 10 Militar,y IUJspital in San Antonio. The hospital, established by Simon Herrera in 1806. was by this time taking care of the San Antonio civilians and garrison soldiers alike. It was salutary, indeed, for many of those wounded in the Battle of Medina that San Antonio had a hospital. The staff, in the spring of 1814, consisted of a surgeon and a physician. But Dr. Jaime Guerra departed for Presidio de Rio Grande on April 29, and •Governor Cristobal Dominguez to the People, September 30. 1813; Benito Armiiian,, Ignacio Perez, and J. F. Collantes to the Inhabitants, Bejar, January 26, 181 4, B erar A rcl,iver. 'Arredondo to Governor Dominguez, October 10, 1813, Bizar Ar&llives. 10 lgnacio Perez to Commandant General Arredondo, February 2, 181-4; Arredondo to Governor Armiiian, March 7, 1814, BJrar Arcl,ives. See also p. 127.
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