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Spanish Abandonment and Re-Occupation of East Texas. 121
at Atakapas, in Louisiana, who was on his way to Bexar to trade
for horses and mules, ignorant, he claimed, of the law forbidding
trade between the provinces. How this could be when these pro-
hibitions were so oft repeated is a matter to cause wonder, but when
the trifling affair finally reached clear to the royal throne this ex-
cuse was accepted by His Majesty.1
Cazorla's report to the viceroy established at once in Mexico a
bad reputation for Bucareli, and set on foot an. attempt to remove
it from the frontier. On the advice of Areche,2 Ripperda was in-
structed, in July, 1775, to report upon the reputed disorders at
Bucareli, and, if necessary, without further notice to remove its
inhabitants nearer to the center of the province.8 Cazorla was
complimented for his vigilance and enjoined to continue it, while
Oconor, to whom was sent a copy of Cazorla's letter, was requested
to hurry up and decide the final disposition to be made of the
Adaesans. He was even to send them to Los Ais if he saw fit, the
royal order to the contrary notwithstanding.4 Oconor did not reply
until December 31, but on that date he expressed to the viceroy
the strongest condemnation of Bucareli; repeated the objections
that he had made to allowing Adaesans to go to Los Ais; indulged
in more or less "I told you so"; gave Ybarbo a bad name; and de-
clared his disappointment that the governor should establish the
settlers in the very place best calculated to cause trouble. To per-
mit them to remain, he said, was certain to have evil consequences.
He recommended, therefore, that the matter be taken out of Rip-
perda's hands and put into Cazorla's, giving him authority to dis-
tribute the Bucareli settlers at Bexar, Bahia, and Arroyo del
In Expediente sobre comercio reciproco entre las Provincias de la
Luisiana y Texas, 4-6 (Vol. 43, Secei6n de Historia, Archivo General), is
a copy of the memorandum of the goods confiscated by Ybarbo.
'Areche to the viceroy, July 13, 1775, in Quaderno que Corresponde,
38-39. Areche said in his note, "It appears that this settlement presents
some dangers that, lest they increase, ought to be remedied, and at the
opportune moment cut off at the roots."
"The viceroy to Ripperda, July 26, 1775, in the Bbxar Archives.
'Areche to the viceroy, July 13, 1775, and Cazorla to the viceroy, Feb-
ruary 27, 1776, both in Quaderno que Corresponde, 39, 65; Oconor to the
viceroy, December 31, 1775, Ibid., 40-54. The date of the order to Oeonor
was July 26, 1775.
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