Regulations for governing the province of the Californias
Subtitle: approved by His Majesty by Royal order, dated October 24, 1781. : Translated by John Everett Johnson.
Contributors: Neve, Felipe de, 1740 (ca.)-1794.; Johnson, John Everett, tr.; Lewis, Oscar, 1893-; Spain.; New Spain.; Grabhorn Press.
Publisher: The Grabhorn press
Published: 1929
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: California -- History -- To 1846 -- Sources; Spain -- Colonies -- Administration; Spain -- Colonies -- North America
Description: Detailed instructions for the governance of Upper California. It listed the duties, rank, and compensation of government officials, provided for the organization and supply of the army, and established rules for the efficient conduct of all branches of the colonial government. With a bibliographical note by Oscar Lewis.
Notes: "Of this English translation three hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn press, San Francisco, in June 1929."
The text was drafted by Don Felipe de Neve, governor of California, on June 1, 1779, and printed in Mexico, 1784. In 1874 the California historical society published a reprint, of which all but six copies are believed to have been destroyed by fire. Of these, two are now in the Bancroft library at Berkeley, and a third--from which the present edition is taken--is privately owned in San Francisco. cf. "Bibliographical note, by Oscar Lewis" ([4] p. at end)
In case, with Spanish edition: Reglamento para el gobierno de la provincia de Californias ... [San Francisco, 1929]