Exhibit C.
The statistics which follow are taken from á work entitled “Historia de la Colonizacion de la Baja California,” by Ulixes Urbano Lassépas, an official of the Mexican Government in Lower California, and printed in 1859 in Mexico City, apparently as á Government publication. The work (pp. 91–107) contains a description of the missions and shows that their population in nearly every case had suffered a great decrease. Where the figures have been given they are reproduced. On page 164 of the history this Mexican official says that—
The greater number of the northern missions lying between Santa Catarina and San Ignacio are to-day (1859) veritable skeletons, some in ruins, scarcely indicating the spot where formerly stood the houses of worship and other buildings. The animals have disappeared from the fields, the native populace has died, silence reigns where formerly was heard the humming of a mill, the bells of the chapels, and the lowing of the herds. One of the principal causes of this decadence was without doubt the application of the Pious Funds of California to purposes other than those for which they were designed.
| Name of mission. | Year enumeration was made. | Population. | Name of mission. | Year enumeration was made. | Population. | ||
| San Francisco Xavier | { | 1768 | 485 | San Pedro Martir | { | 1796 | 420 |
| 1857 | 56 | 1857 | 1 | ||||
| Guadalupe or Guasinapi | { | 1768 | 530 | Santa Catarina Martir | { | 1800 | 1,500 |
| 1857 | 11 | 1857 | 0 | ||||
| Los Dolores | { | 1768 | 450 | Santo Tomás | { | 1797 | 350 |
| 1857 | 6 | 1855 | 40 | ||||
| San Ignacio | { | 1778 | 750 | San Vicente Ferrer | { | 1835 | 176 |
| 1857 | 281 | 1855 | 40 | ||||
| San José del Cabo | { | 1768 | 350 | Rosario | { | 1830 | 41 |
| 1857 | 1,091 | 1855 | 24 | ||||
| Todos Santos | { | 1768 | 90 | Santo Domingo | { | 1778 | 530 |
| 1857 | 310 | 1855 | 19 | ||||
| San Luis Gonzaga | { | 1768 | 310 | San Miguel | { | 1778 | 600 |
| 1857 | 20 | 1855 | 5 | ||||
| Santa Gertrudis | { | 1768 | 1,000 | Descanso | { | 1778 | 220 |
| 1857 | 4 | 1855 | 24 | ||||
| San Borja | { | 1768 | 1,500 | Total of Indians at above-mentioned missions of Lower California at the earlier dates | 10,162 | ||
| 1857 | 3 | ||||||
| Santa María | { | 1768 | 330 | Total in 1857 | 1,938 | ||
| 1857 | 0 | ||||||
| San Fernando | { | 1770 | 530 | ||||
| 1857 | 3 | Difference | 8,224 | ||||