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Spanish Activities on Lower Trinily River, 1746-1771 365
might be spared the pain of following further such frivolous excuse-
making and disgusting inactivity. Since, however, such errors
have been made, it is necessary to show that, excepting, perhaps, a
removal to a, site a quarter of a league away, the transfer had not
been effected down to 1767, when steps for final abandonment of
the place were begun, and after which, of course, no further effort
was likely to be made.'
A year and a half passed after the events related above had oc-
curred, when a junta de guerra held in Mexico December 9, 1762,
again approved Los Horconsitos, and, on December 22, Martos was
again ordered to move the presidio and mission thither and to do
it at once. It is clear from what follows, however, that the order
was not carried out.
In November, 1763, the presidio was put under the command of
a captain, Don Rafael Martinez Pacheco, whereupon Martos, resent-
ing the change, became anxious to do what for five years he had
neglected. In June, 1764, therefore, he went to the presidio in com-
pany with Father Calahorra to effect the transfer, but the Indians,
bribed by Pacheco, as it later appeared, opposed the change, and,
though the governor remained on the ground a month, the object
was not accomplished.2 Martos reported his failure to the viceroy,
and on August 12, 1764, the command to remove the establishment
to Los Horconsitos was repeated." In the course of the ensuing
trouble with Pacheco the presidio was partially burned. Subse-
quently, in the administration of Afan de Rivera, temporary repairs
were made on the partly destroyed establishment, which indicates
that no removal had been made. In 1766 a storm damaged the
presidio and mission, and a new clamor was made for a transfer,
there being some evidence that the presidio was moved in conse-
quence to higher ground a quarter of a league away.4 Finally, in
October, 1767, when the Marquis de Rubi inspected the place, he
'Bonilla, Breve Compendio, THE QUARTERLY, VIII, 57.
zThe viceroy to Martos, December 22, 1762; Martos to the viceroy,
December 14, 1763; the viceroy to Martos, August 12, 1764; Martos to
the viceroy, December 14, 1763. Testimony was given on January 2, 1765,
to the effect that Pacheco had bribed the Indians. What his motives were
does not appear. Declaration of Calzones Colorados before Marcos Rufz,
January 2, 1765. L. P., no. 25.
3The viceroy to Martos, August 12, 1764.
'The viceroy to Rivera, November 17, 1766; dictamen, fiscal, November
17, 1766.
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