California and Its Missions, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from California and Its Missions, Vol. 2 of 2: Their History to the Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoHe organized the department at San Blas with equal diligence. The salaries and supplies, and the sources from which the necessary funds were to be drawn, were personally arranged by Galvez with all the exactness of a modern municipal budget. His methods were new in Mexico, but the despotic energy of the Visitor made them be observed punctually. He made no scruple about using the capital of the Pious Fund for the expenses of the first expedition. The surplus in the hands of the last Jesuit procurator and the stores in the magazine at Loretto amounted to nearly two hundred thousand dollars, and were all employed in building the ships and furnishing supplies for the royal expedition. Galvez was strict in the matter of economy. He reduced the pay hitherto al lowed by the treasury to soldiers on California service, and he made up the church furniture and altar linen for the new missions by borrowing from those already founded on the peninsula. Father Palou incidentally mentions that many of the latter were almost worn out when sent. In vindication of his colleagues against the insinuations of Sergeant Barri on this head, the worthy Franciscan appealed to the wife of a Spanish sergeant, who had to mend, wash and iron the albs and altar linen before they could be shipped to Monterey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.