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Rh the decree by which it was attempted to carry the plan into effect. It was not intended to enforce this measure without the approval of the supreme government, to which the plan was forwarded the 7th of September. There were also sent at the same time six supplementary articles, approved by the diputacion August 13th, providing for the establishment of two Franciscan convents at Santa Clara and San Gabriel, for which twenty or more friars were to be sent from Mexico at the expense of the pious fund, and to which the Spanish padres allowed to remain might also attach themselves. These convents were intended to supply in the future missionaries, curates, and chaplains.

Thus it is seen that the governor in his policy toward the padres, down to the end of 1830, was by no means arbitrary, unjust, or even hasty; neither was there so bitter a controversy between him and the friars as would be inferred from the general tone of what has been written on the subject. In these last years of the decade we have from the padres no