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The provisions thus jointly made for the lower Trinity were as
follows: (1) For the present a garrison of thirty soldiers and
a mission were to be established precisely on the site of Blanc-
pain's arrest. (2) As soon as a suitable permanent site could
be selected-it being conceded that El Orcoquisac was unhealth-
ful-a villa of fifty families was to be founded, and to this site
the mission and presidio were to be removed. Of these families
twenty-five were to be Spaniards and twenty-five Tlascaltecan In-
dians, both classes to be recruited mainly from Saltillo, and to be
aided by a single government subsidy sufficient to transport them
and provide them with an outfit for agriculture, the sum to be
determined by Barrios. (3) At the end of six years the presidio
was to be suppressed, the soldiers becoming citizen colonists. For
this reason, as well as for the immediate benefit of the Indians,
married men of good character were to be preferred in the selec-
tion of the garrison. (4) The mission was to be conducted by
two friars from the college of Guadalupe de Zacatecas, on a stipend
of four hundred pesos each. (5) Barrios was ordered to report
the funds necessary for the subsidy, to proceed at once to estab-
lish the presidio and mission on the temporary site, and, assisted
by two friars and by men acquainted with the country, to choose
the site for the villa.'
Bonilla and Bancroft have made it appear that the colony of
fifty families provided for was to be identical with the presidio,
but from the above it is clear that such was not the case. Morfi
states that a presidio of thirty men was at first provided for; that
because Barrios reported the original site unsuitable, the gar-
rison was moved to the Springs of Santa Rosa de Alcazar, and
that on February 4, 1757, a junta in Mexico decided to establish
a new presidio and a colony of fifty Spanish and fifty Tlascaltecal
families. The date of the junta was February 4, 1756; it pro-
vided for a colony of only fifty families, as has been stated above.
'The proceedings in Mexico are recorded in a report of the junta de
guerra of Feb. 4, 1756 (B. A. San Agustfn de Ahumada); Testimonio del
dictamen de Valcarcel, Oct. 11, 1755. B. MSS.; the viceroy to Barrios,
Feb. 12, 1756. B. MSS.; the viceroy to the king, March 14, 1756. B.
MSS.; royal cedula, Aug. 20, 1756. B. MSS. The auditor, Valcarcel, gave
his opinion on Feb. 11, 1755, the fiscal on Aug. 27. The date of the first
junta has not been ascertained. Note Bancroft's error in saying that all
the families were to be Tlascaltecans.354
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