83 [Cross] Year...... of... 1781 Number 93. Proceedings carried out in the matter of Viz[ent]e Flores, citizen of the presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar and the villa of S[ a] n Fern[ an] do, taking out two hundred head of cattle to the province of Coahuila, one hundred being branded, the remaining hundred being unbranded. He has duly bound himself to abide by the consequences-of the lord commandant general's decision with respect to the ownership of unbranded cattle, in view of the petition made by the owners of ranchos on Cibolo Creek and the S[a]n Antonio River; in virtue whereof he is indebted for the sum of 200 pesos. v // [ Blank]
84 Senor Colonel, Governor, and Commander: Sir: Vicente Flores, citizen of the royal presidio of San Antt[oni]o de Bejar, prostrates himself before Your Lordship and in the most submissive manner provided by law states [the following]: Being poor and with several obligations, I have resolved to take a herd of one hundred fifty or two hundred head of cattle to Rio Grande Presidio if Your Lordship should issue me a permit. I will round up these cattle from my rancho as far as the canada of El Quatralbo, near Cleto. These are lands of ours where we pasture our livestock in the summer. We have been unable to go to those places to round up livestock, because of [our] timorousness with regard to the hostiles, for which reason right now many unbranded cattle can therein be found that I infer are ours because there are no cattle therein bearing any other brand or mark, as I will make evident. The names of the places where our cattle are summering and where cattle bearing no brand but ours are to be found are El Cuchillo, La Laguna Corral, and Los Olmos. The troops that have on various occasions gone out of the fort and traveled through the
85 first two places will confirm this [claim], and the soldiers that were with the Senor Alferes Baldes on the occasion of his camping at Los Olmos about a year ago can state that the only brand and mark which they found there--of the parties with interests in the rancho of Las Mulas--was ours. In this matter, sir, no detriment accrues to any mission at all or to any resident whatsoever. For all of which: I beg and entreat Your Lordship to be so kind as to afford lv what I ask above, // for thereby will I receive kindness and goodness, should Your Lordship find it suitable and should it be to your pleasure. Senor Colonel, Governor, and Commandant [addressee] Vicente Flores [L.S., 1-lv pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786] Decree Provided the petitioner export no cows--given how detrimental such exportation is to the increase and breeding of livestock of this species--let the permit he requests be granted him. And with regard to the permission he seeks in order to take unbranded cattle from the places
86 he mentions, the petition is denied, for the said places are neither public lands nor rightful [property] of the owner of the rancho of Las Mulas. I thus dispose and command, and I affix my signature hereon, I, Don Dom[ing]o Cabello: colonel in the royal armies; governor and commandant of arms of the province of Los Texas and its missions, conquered lands, and frontiers; captain of the cavalry company of the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar; and inspector 2 general of militia units and // presidial troops of said province by commission conferred by the lord commandant general of the Interior Provinces of this kingdom of New Spain. Done at this royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexa;r on the thirteenth day of the month of July in the year seventeen eighty-one, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this plain paper, for no stamped paper is available; in witness whereof I attest. Cabello Josef Plazido de MonZOn [D.S., lv-2 pp.., in E. 7/13/1781-11/2!F/1786] 0
87 Vicente Flores, citizen of the royal presidio of S[a]n Antt[oni]o de Bejar, appears before Your Lordship, prostrates himself [at your feet], and, with the greatest humility, states [the following]: I have received the decree that Your Lordship was pleased to send me for authority to export a herd of cattle that I seek to take out. And seeing that the places which I refer to for rounding up unbranded cattle are not public lands, I 2v say that if Your Lordship grants me a permit // to round up fifty or a hundred unbranded bovines--my guaranteeing payment with respect to the consequences of the lord commandant general's decision--in order to be able to defray the expenses which Your Lordship knows I will incur if Your Lordship does grant me the permit, I will pick up such beasts either in the places that I previously listed or below Las Tetillas. For all of which: I beg and entreat Your Lordship to be so kirid as to afford what I ask above, for thereby will I receive kindness [and] goodness, should Your Lordship find it suitable and should it be to your pleasure. Vicente Flores [L.S., 2-2v pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786]
88 Decree The response given by Viz[ent]e Flores, citizen of this presidio, has been examined. Let said citizen be summoned to enter an appearance before me, for he has returned after having made up the herd of cattle that he seeks to drive to the province of Coahuila. [He is to appear] in order that he may make known, with all accountability, the places in which the roundup of unbranded and branded bovines has been made, and at the same time [to make known] the number of each type that he has rounded up and the site or place into which he has herded the said bovines.- The remaining proceedings can then be undertaken. I thus dispose and 3 command, and I affix my signature hereon, I, Don // Dom[ing]o Ca.bello> colonel in the royal armies; governor and commandant of arms of the province of Los Texas and its missions, conquered lands, and frontiers; captain of the cavalry company of the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar; and inspector general of militia units and presidial troops of said province by commission conferred by the lord commandant general of the Interior Provinces of this kingdom of New Spain. Done at this royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar on the ninth day of the month of August in the.year seventeen eighty-one, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this plain paper, for no stamped paper is
89 available; in witness whereof I attest. Ca bello Josef Plazido de Monzon [D.S., 2v-3 pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786] Judicial Proceeding At the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar, //3v Viz[en]te Flores appeared before me, the aforenamed governor. And when I had made known to his person the contents of the immediately preceding decree, he stated [the following]: The places wherein he made the roundup of unbranded bovines are La Sinfonia, Las Tetillas, [Los] Olmos, [E1] Carrizo, and Los Nogales. [Going] through those places, he rounded up a hundred head of unbranded bovines, and in pasture lands of the rancho of Las Mulas--in which [rancho] he has an inheritance interesthe gathered as many more branded ones, these [last hundred] bearing his own brand, that of his father, Don Fran[cis]co Flores, that of his grandfather Don Vizente Travieso, or that of his uncle Don Tomas Trabieso. The two hundred head are together in one herd at the rancho of Don Simon de
9o r Arocha, ready to be driven out, [the petitioner] presenting two citizens of this villa of S[a]n Fernando and presidio of Boxar as guarantors for the consequences of [taking out] the aforesaid one hundred head of unbranded bovines; [the guarantors being] Don Fran[cis]co Flores and Joaquin Flores. [End of statement]. And he has affixed his signature hereon, as have I, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, using this 4 ordinary paper, for no stamped paper is available; in, witness whereof I attest. Dom[ing]o Cabello Vicente Flores Josef Plazido de Monzon [D.S., 3-4 pp., in E. 7/12/1781-11/24/1786] Decree In consequence of what has been stated by Viz[ent]e Flores, and [since I have been] apprised of the one hundred unbranded bovines.that he is to.export--the price of which is set at twenty-five reals per head by virtue,of Flores' having assumed all the expenses of herding and rounding up said bovines--let the instrument be drawn up wherein the
91 guarantors bind themselves and pledge their property, owned and to be owned,:to what may be duly required. That done, the corresponding permit may be issued to Flores. The guarantors must also pledge to pay the sum of fifty pesos, which is the duty belonging to His Majesty for the capture of the one hundred mestenas and unbranded bovines. 4v Flores is thus allowed [to present guarant.ors], // for he does not have sufficient funds at present to defray,the said royal duty, which cannot be left unprovided for. I thus dispose and command, and I affix my signature hereon, I, the aforesaid governor. Done at this presidio of Bexar on the eleventh day of the month of August in the year seventeen eighty-one, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this ordinary paper, for no stamped paper is available; in witness whereof I attest. Cabello [ Rubric ] Josef Plazido de.monzon [D.S., 4-4v pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786] Script At the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o
92 de Bexar and the villa of S[a]n Fernando on the eleventh day of the month of August in the year seventeen eighty-one, before me, Don Dom[ing]o Cabello--colonel in the royal armies; governor and commandant of arms of the province of Los Texas and its W missions, conquered lands, and frontiers; captain of the cavalry company of the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar; and inspector general of militia units and presidial troops of_said province by commission conferred by the lord commandant general of the Interior Provinces of the kingdom of New Spain--there appeared Don Fran[cis]co Flores and Don Joaqufn Flores, both of [whom are of] this community and both of whom I certify that I know. They stated that by these presents they give sure guaranty, in common, each one on his own, and jointly, in favor of Don Viz[en]te de Flores, [resident] of the same community, for the value of one hundred head of unbranded cattle which the said Don Viz[ent]e Flores is taking from lands whose status is in litigation between the residents of this community and the mission of El [E]sp[fri]tu S[an]to, of the presidio of La Bahia. The value of said cattle amounts to three hundred twelve pesos and four reals, and [for this sum] the said two guarantors bind themselves and pledge their property, both owned and to be owned, in case the said cattle should [be adjudged to] belong to the mission
93 of El [E]sp[iri]tu S[an]to and [in case] the said Don Viz[en]te de Flores should not render payment in consequence of what the lord commandant general may decide in this matter with regard to the appeal that has been W made to him. In virtue thereof, the said guarantors submit to the authority and jurisdiction of the judicatory and to all His Majesty-'s magistrates, of whatever district they might be, and to those of this villa in particular; whereby said guarantors may thus be constrained to keep and fulfill their pledge, renouncing, as they do renounce, their home and community rights and [their rights to invoke] the law Si cumbenerit de urisditione omnium. 'udum, together with the general exemptions from testifying; in testimony whereof, they have covenanted, and they have affixed their signatures hereon, as have I, the aforesaid governor, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this ordinary paper, for no stamped paper is available; in witness whereof I attest. Emended: "three hundredt' Valid. Dom[ing]o Cabello Josef Plazido de Monzon Fran[cis]co Flores Joachin Flores [D.S., 4v-5v pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786]
94 Decree Since a guaranty has been made in due form for the value of the one hundred head of unbranded cattle that Viz[ent]e Flores is taking to the province of Coahuila, let him be issued a 6 permit for these cattle and for the // one hundred branded ones that he is also exporting to said province. And let a separate record be made and kept of his pledge to pay the fifty pesos that belong to His Majesty for the duty against the afore-mentioned one hundred head of unbranded cattle. The corresponding entries are to be made in the appropriate register and in the book which contains the record of livestock exported from this province, so that the entry for the exportation of the said two hundred head of cattle may be on record for all time. I thus dispose and command, and I affix my signature hereon, I. Don Dom[ing]o Cabello: colonel in the royal armies; governor and commandant of arms of the province of Los Texas and its missions, conquered lands and frontiers; captain of the cavalry company of the royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar; and inspector general of militia units and presidial troops of said province by commission conferred by the lord commandant general of the Interior Provinces of the kingdom of New Spain. Done at this royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar on the eleventh:day of the month of August in the year seventeen eighty-one, in the presence of attendant
95 witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this ordinary paper, for no stamped paper is available; in witness whereof I attest. Cabello [ Rubric] Jose Placido de Monzon [D.S.,.5v-6 pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786] 6v, Decree Whereas on this day Don Viz[ent]e Flores has rendered and paid the fifty pesos that he was charged for the capture of the one hundred head of bovine livestock that he has driven out to the province of Coahuila, said sum being the duty levied by the lord commandant general of these Interior Provinces, let the said sum be placed and deposited in the three-key chest designated for this purpose; and let the corresponding entry be made in the book that contains the tally and record of funds produced from this source. I thus dispose and command, and I affix my signature hereon, I, the aforesaid governor, Don Dom[ing]o Cabello. Done at this royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar on the twentythird day of the month of November in the year seventeen
96 eighty-one, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this o'rdinary paper, for none stamped is available; in witness whereof I attest. Cabello Josef Plazido de Monzon [D.S., 6-6v pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786] Decree 7 Viz [ en] te Flores has paid // fifty pesos for the capture of one hundred head of unbranded cattle that he has exported to the province of Cohahuila, as is evident in the immediately preceding decree. But since he has not paid sixteen of the twenty reals at which each of the said beasts has been valued in consequence of what was set down by the lord commandant general in a decree issued the fifth of November, 1782, and published by bando the thirteenth of July, 1783--wherefore the total sum [owed] is two hundred pesos-- 1et these proceedings be included in the inventory of documents that are to be turned over to the Senor Captain of Cavalry Don Rafael Martines Pacheco, upon whom the
97 governorship and the office of commandant ofarms of this province of Los Texas have been conferred. [Let them be turned over to him] at the same time the other papers pertaining to said governorship are given to him. He 7v may thus be pleased to command that // the exaction of the afore-stated sum be effected in order that it may be deposited in the chest designated for the safekeeping of funds pertaining to this revenue branch. I thus dispose and command, and I affix my signature hereon, I. the aforesaid governor. Done at this royal presidio of S[a]n Ant[oni]o de Bexar on the twenty-fourth day of the month of November in the year seventeen eighty-six, in the presence of attendant witnesses, with whom I am acting in the absence of a notary, on this ordinary paper, for none stamped is available; in witness whereof I attest. Cabello Jose Placido de Monz6n [D.S., 6v-7v pp., in E. 7/13/1781-11/24/1786]