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400 the 6th of May 1787, came an order from the crown to pay the countess dowager 30,000 pesos for her passage to Spain. She left the city on the 25th with her four children. According to Gomez, Diario, 298, on the 10th of June, 1788, the residehcia of the late viceroy was published with little formality, forty days being allowed within which to present charges to his successor.