<P> The most successful year of this mission's short life span (11 years) was 1832 . In his annual report for that year, Fr . Gutierrez recorded the following: 127 baptisms, 34 marriages, and 70 deaths; a total of 996 neophytes (coming from 35 area villages); the livestock inventory included 6,000 sheep and goats, 900 horses, 13 mules, 50 pigs and 3,500 head of cattle . Crops were measured in fanegas, or Spanish bushels, a variable measure of volume generally between 50 and 60 liters . In 1832 the mission produced 800 fanegas of wheat, 1025 fanegas of barley, 52 fanegas of peas, 300 fanegas of corn, 32 fanegas of beans, and 2 fanegas of garbanzos . </P> <P> In 1833 the Mexican Congress decided to close all of the missions in Alta California with the passage of the Mexican secularization act of 1833 . Governor Figueroa issued a regulation (Reglamento Provisional para la secularization de las Misiones) on August 9, 1834, outlining the requirements for the distribution of property (land, cattle, and equipment) to each mission's neophytes . Among the provisions were that "5 . To each head of a family and to all over 20 years old, will be given from the Mission lands a lot not over 400 nor less than 100 varas square" (28 to 7 acres). Plus "6...pro rata...one - half of the livestock" and "7...half or less of the existing chattels, tools, and seed ...". </P> <P> Mission San Francisco Solano officially ceased to exist on November 3, 1834, when it was designated a First Class Parish . The Spanish missionaries were to be replaced by parish priests - the first was Fr . Lorenzo Quijas who had earlier been assigned to Sonoma and San Rafael.In, </P> <P> Lieutenant (teniente) Mariano Vallejo, Commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco, was named administrator (comisionado) to oversee the closing of the Mission under the Reglamento . Fr . Quijas moved back to San Rafael in July, 1835, after many disputes with Guadalupe Antonio Ortega, Vallejo's majordomo, to whom Vallejo had delegated the work of secularization . Ortega (sometimes call Sergeant Ortega) was "uneducated, coarse and licentious". Right after returning to San Rafael, Padre Quijas wrote a letter to Commissary Perfect Garcia Diego, his superior, complaining about the situation in Sonoma and specifically the "...abominable deeds of Ortega ..." Quijas then gives names of witnesses to be called against Ortega . Upon receipt of the letter Fr . Diego forward it to Governor José Figueroa demanding some action against Ortega . The Governor was critically ill and died at the end of the following month . No action was taken . It wasn't until the summer of 1837, because of new scandals and unsatisfactory accounts, that Ortega was removed . </P>

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