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Power of
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Source: Bexar Archives, R.B. Blake Collection, Supp., Vol. I, Pg. 128. |
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"In the Royal Presidio of Our Lady of the Pilar of Los Adaes, jurisdiction of the Province of Texas, on the 31st day of the month of December, of this year 1759, before me, Don Marcos Ruiz, Lieutenant of the Company, and comandante (sic) of the said Presidio in the absence of the Sir Governor, and by the witnesses undersigned, with whom I act in absence of a notary, appeared present in their own persons: |
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| Don Pedro Sierra | Felipe de Sierra |
| Joseph de Castro | Manuel de Pozos |
| Antonio Cadena | Santos de Garza |
| Joseph de Garza | Ignacio de Haro |
| Miguel Cordova | Xavier Calahorra |
| Bartolo de Sierra | Sebastian Camacho |
| Thadeo Ramas | Joseph Felis Ruiz |
| Lorenzo Posos | Pedro de Lara |
| Miguel del Rio | Nicolas Xaxar |
| Joseph Ballejo | Mathias Sanches |
| Ignacio Hernandes | Juan de Torres |
| Antonio Villa Real | Juan Joseph Pacheco |
| Gaspar Ruiz | Melchor Morin |
| Bernardo Ramires | Faustino Lasso |
| Miguel Losoya | Juan Antonio Ybarbu |
| Joseph Zepeda | Ignacio Montes |
| whom I certify I know, and they said and delivered all their authority complete which by law will be required necessary, to Don Diego Antonio Giraud, citizen and of the commerce of the city of Mexico, in order that, in their names, and in those of | |
| Pedro Granados | Antonio Gallardo |
| Domingo Chirino | Andres Chirino |
| Joseph Hidalgo | Melchor Benites |
| Augustin Rodrigues | Joachin Ruiz |
| Joseph Miguel Trevino | Joseph Miguel Games |
| Christoval Ballejo | Ignacio Barbosa |
| Francisco Losoya | Francisco de Torres |
| Manuel Bervan | Valentin |
| Joseph Antonio Pena | Joachin Mansolo |
| Victor Mansolo | Facundo Mansolo |
| Ambrosio Vasquez | Joseph Maria Rodrigues |
| Patricio Padilla | Francisco de la Cerda |
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who in their own persons representing
their actions and rights are able in the customary form to ask and to
collect in the royal chests that are in said city the amount of 25,200
pesos, which is what, at the rate of 420 pesos which each one of the sixty
soldiers who garrison said Presidio has annually, are due to those stated,
including the Lieutenant, in addition to that of 65 pesos which, in
addition to the wages stated, they enjoy in each year, the aforesaid
officers, which each made, that of 25,265 pesos, which received and
collected that may be in the aforesaid form, it is our wish that he have,
as also said Don Diego Antonio Giraud will have it, at the disposition of
thee Sir Don Angel de Martos y Navarrete, Governor and Captain General for
His Majesty (whom God preserve) of this said Province, who at present is
in the town of San Gernando, head of it; of which gentleman at the present
we are entirely satisfied and paid for it, that he may have to convert it
into the things and goods which the instruction contains, which for this
purpose we have given him. For all of which, and which concerning
all this is offered, as also in order that also, and in the same form, he
may receive and collect in said chests, 300 reales, and sixty pounds of
powder, which are what, at the rate of six, that each one of the soldiers
of this Presidio have to have, that belong to those stated. We give
and grant to said Don Diego Antonio Giraud this authority, with the power
of being able to substitute, revoke the substitutes, and to name others;
that in all we exonerate him, in form and his stability and validation, we
obligate our persons and goods which we have or will have. Also they
delivered it on said day, month and year, and signed, those that know how,
with me and the witnesses of my assistance, who were Don Felipe de Mora,
Bernardo Zervantes, and for those that do not know how, I made it an
instrumental witness; and is on this common paper, because of having no
sealed paper in this Province, to all of which interposing my authority
judicially, I certify.
Marcos Ruiz Felipe de Mora, Assistance Bernardo Zerbantes, Assistance Felipe Sierra, Pedro
de Lara (The name of Thomas Ybarbo appeared on the Power of Attorney for December 31, 1767.)" |
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