The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, July 1912 - April, 1913 Page: 360
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Barrios required the surveyors to prepare estimates of the cost
of building the necessary dams and acequias, and in November
reported to. the viceroy in favor of Santa Rosa (as Miranda
had already done in October), recommending three missions in-
stead of one. On January 7 this site was approved by a junta
de guerra y hacienda, and shortly afterward the viceroy ordered
the presidio moved thither, with the condition that each week a
squad of soldiers must be sent to reconnoiter El Orcoquisac to look
for Frenchmen.
The missionaries were required, likewise, to transfer the mission
with the people of Calzones Colorados and Canos (assumed by
the authorities, from previous reports, to be in the mission), to
El Gordo's village, and to strive to attract thither the people of
Mateo and also those of the Bidai tribe. Thus was it planned
to gather all of the Orcoquiza and Bidai into one settlement.
In March and April the central government proceeded in good
faith to provide 30,000 pesos, the sum asked for by Barrios, for
equipping and transporting the settlers, and ordered three swivel
guns to San Agustin, to take the place of the cannon brought
from Los Adaes. The details of recruiting the families were left
to Barrios, but he was ordered to. take from Saltillo fifty saddle
horses, fifty brood mares, twenty-five cows, nine thousand one hun-
dred and twenty-five sheep, and six yoke of oxen. Other neces-
sary stock was to be purchased in Los Adaes. Each family was
to be supplied with a limited outfit for engaging in agriculture,
and a gun and a sabre for defence, while, during the journey,
each member of the Spanish families was to be allowed three reals
a day, and each member of the Tlascaltecan families two reals.
The actual work of recruiting, equipping and transporting the
families was entrusted by Barrios, some time later, to a French-
man named Diego Giraud.2
place for the site, and is the place marked on Miranda's map as Santa
Rosa. It was apparently about where Hufsmith now is; if not, then at
Houston.
'Barrios to the viceroy, November 8, 1756; the viceroy to the governor,
January 7, 1757; decree of the viceroy, January 19, 1757; the viceroy to
the missionaries, March 23, 1757.
'Action of the junta of March 3, and a supplementary decree of April 3;
viceroy's decrees of March 3 and March 8; viceroy to Arriaga, April 18,.
1757; Appeal of the Father, 9 (N. A. doc. 487).360
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