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surveyed for the secular priest who was to look after their spiritual welfare, was to be cultivated at his own expense. 25 Secularization of iltfission San Juan Capistrano. \Vithout loss of time Governor Munoz went to Mission San Juan Capistrano on July 14 and requested Fray Jose Mariano Cardenas, who was temporarily in charge during the absence of Father Fray Jose Ramon Tejada, to proceed at once with the transfer of all temporal property to the neophytes. 'With him came Jose Gil, the newly appointed justicia. Father Cardenas imme- diately summoned the Indian governor, Jose Cayetano Valle, who brought with him all the neophytes of the mission. These were Jose Diaz, Matias Jimenez, Jose Maria Rivera, Marcelino Castaneda, Antonio Bustillos, Jose Ventura Quinones, Matias Prado, Salvador Flores, Luis Bustamante, Conrado Riveras, and Mariano Tejada. The decree of secularization was read to them, and Pedro Huizar was ordered to proceed at once with the survey and subdivision of the mission lands. Eight plats, two hundred varas by four hundred, of the best lands nearest the mission were set aside as the communal farm. The bounds and limits were carefully marked. Then the surveyor measured off twelve plats, two hundred varas by one hundred, which were assigned individ- ually to the twelve Indians listed for their own use and their families'. Of the field adjacent to the main labor (farm), planted with sugar cane in forty-seven rows, three additional sections of the same size were surveyed and marked. These were assigned to the mission Indians for common use and the crop gathered therefrom was to be apportioned among themselves. They agreed that after the sugar cane was harvested, the three plats would be rented and the proceeds, as with the communal lands, were to be used for the benefit of the pueblo. Having received the lands, they returned to the mission where the following property was turned over to them: Two crowbars of twenty- five pounds weight, six hoes with handles, and two axes, two large bits and a small one, one large and one small hacksaw, and an English saw, two chisels, a small hammer, two trowels, one large and two small beam scales; a wooden bushel measure, a peck measure; a weaving loom, a loom and shuttle spindle and two combs; one harrow and four plow- 25 Inventario de los bienes de Temporalidad de la Mislon de Sn. Franco. de la Espada Provincia de los Texas. Entregados con arreglo a orden del senor comandante general de estas Provincias Ynternas de Nueva Espana Briger. Dn. Pedro Nava a los Yndios de ella por el Governador Dn. Manuel Munoz. Saltillo Arc/rives, Vol. VI, pp. 99-1 I 7.
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