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 CHAPTER XVI.

GUTIERREZ, CASTRO, AND ALVARADO REVOLUTION.

1836.

GOVERNOR CHICO, frightened away from California at the end of July, had left both civil and military commands, in accordance with the laws though against the wishes of the diputacion, to Nicolas Gutierrez, who was at the time acting as military commandant of the south, and who did not reach the capital for more than a month. Meanwhile I suppose that Captain Zamorano was acting as representative of the governor's authority at Monterey, being comandante of the post, at least until August 8th, when Captain Muñoz arrived from the south with the reënforcements ordered by Chico, and possibly assumed the command by virtue of his seniority in rank. I have, however, no record of any act of authority exercised by either of those officers. Gutierrez arrived the 6th of September.