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626 assumed a form slightly different from that at the other missions, since all the neophytes were emancipated under Figueroa's experimental system of 1833, the lands being apportioned to them by Captain Portilla as comisionado, and a regular Indian pueblo being organized in November. It is not quite certain 10,978 to 8,059; horses and mules 178 to 59; sheep, etc., 5,019 to 4,080. (In 1838 there were 494 cattle, 448 horses, and 9 mules.) Largest crop 1,625 bush. in 1831; smallest 300 (?) in 1834; average 790.

General stat. 1771-1834, the whole period of the mission's existence: total of baptisms 4,404, of which 1,689 Ind. adults, 2,628 Ind. child., 4 and 83 de razon; average per year 69; total of marriages 1,168, of which 24 de razon; total of deaths 3,227, of which 1,255 Ind. adults, 1,898 Ind. child., 24 and 30 de razon; average per year 50; death rate 5.88 per cent of pop. Largest pop. 1,361 in 1812. Females slightly in excess of males down to 1811. Children decreased from ¼ to ⅙ of the pop. Largest no. of cattle 14,000 in 1819; horses 1,355 in 1806; mules 183 in 1813; asses 4 in 1813; sheep 17,030 in 1800; goats 1,353 in 1784; swine 206 in 1818; all kinds 31,270 in 1819. Total production of wheat 140,700 bush., yield 19 fold; barley 7,760 bush., yield 21 fold; corn 89,875 bush., yield 100 fold; beans 5,375 bush., yield 22 fold.

Sept. 12, 1832, P. Zalvidea sends a keg to S. Luis to be filled with consecrated wine, that at S. Juan having soured. Sta Cruz Arch., MS., 11. 1835:Inventory of mission property, formed by the padre and four comisionados. Total amount including buildings $54,456; debts $1,410 (credits $13,123; buildings $7,208; furniture, tools, etc., $14,708; church $1,250; sacred utensils $15,568, ranchos S. Joaquin and Mision Vieja $12,019, library $490). ''St. Pap. Miss.,'' MS., v. 48-9. 1838: Live-stock turned over by Sepúlveda to his successor Argüello as mentioned above. Id., vi. 33. Income of the storehouse $2,372, expenditure $1,717. Id., vi. 37. 1939: S. Juan owes $1,600 besides the padre's stipend. Credits $5,000. Id., xi. 26. 1840: List of debts amounting to $1,556. Vallejo, Doc., MS., xxxiii. 12; ''Pico, Pap. Mis.,'' MS., 47-51.