1. From the Franciscan point of view, mission lands and other secular properties were being held in trust 2.until such time as the Indians became “people of reason” and full citizens of the Spanish Empire. 3. The. promise that mission lands would be returned to the Indians was codified by decree of the 4.Spanish Cortes in 1813. That promise was also implied in a number of laws passed by the Mexican 5.government in the 1820s and 1830s. Below, the subsections of this report section summarize the 6.Mexican laws and statutes and describe the practical events that left the Indians of the California 7.missions landless by 1846.
8.Prelude to Secularization
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