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 CHAPTER XXIV.

LOCAL ANNALS OF MONTEREY DISTRICT.

1831-1840.

THE population of gente de razon in the Monterey district, including Branciforte and seven missions, may be regarded, on authority that is tolerably satisfactory, as having increased from 1,100 at the be ginning to 1,600 at the end of the decade. Of the latter number 700 lived at Monterey, 550 at the ranches of the district, 250 at and about Branciforte, 50 at San Juan, and 50 at all the other missions. There were perhaps 75 foreigners who may be re- (667)