Plan para el establecimiento de una negociación mercantil para con sus productos atender al pago de la guarnición que guarnece la Peninsula de California y al fomento de la mismo

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Plan Para El Establecimiento de Una Negociacion Mercantil

Plan para el establecimiento de una negociacion mercantil written page

Collection area: Borderlands

Collection dates: 1825

About this collection

Eight-page manuscript copy of original document in secretarial hand, dated February 10, 1825, and signed by Francisco de Paulo Tamariz. This plan arranged for the establishment of a mercantile negotiation, for products to take care of payment of the garrison that provides for the Peninsula of California, and encourage the same. Accompanied by a six-page statement of transmittal, also signed by Tamariz, on June 21, 1825.

This plan was adopted along with others in 1825 by the Junta. Some of the plans were published, in 1827, under the title: Colección de los principales trabajos en que se ha ocupado la Junta nombrada para meditar y proponer al supremo gobierno los medios mas necessarios para promover el progreso de la cultura y civilización de los territorios de la Alta y de la Baja California.

Historical background

The Junta de Fomento de Californias was established to colonize California, and establish Monterey as a commerical capital to dominate Pacific trade.

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