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 CHAPTER VIII.

AN INTERREGNUM ECHEANDÍA AND ZAMORANO.

1832.

THE diputacion met at Los Angeles January 10, 1832. Two subjects demanded and obtained almost exclusively the attention of this, body, the vocales present being Pico, Vallejo, Osio, Ortega, and Ar- guello, with Yorba later and Alvarado as secretary. The first duty was a proper presentment of charges against Ex-governor Victoria, as a defence of the late revolutionary movement; and the second was to name a gefe politico ad interim in accordance with the plan indorsed by the leaders of that movement. I append an abstract of proceedings at the meetings held in January and February. So far as the action against