Note 91 — Chapter IX · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE GOVERNOR: THE AD INTERIM RULE

Anda to Rojo, October 30, 1762 (with testimonios of witnesses), A. I., 107–3–3; Recopilación, 2–15–57 and 58. On October 20, 1762, Anda wrote as follows: “I said and I repeat that the presidency and government fell to the royal Audiencia; and I add that the latter is conserved and continued in me, that I am the sole and only minister, that by my absence from that capital because of the commissions confided to me at a convenient time, I remained free from the enemies ... so that in my person is met the prescriptions of law clxxx of the above-cited book and título, since my associates are lacking and have been imprisoned with your Excellency in the fatal loss of that capital.” (Blair and Robertson, XLIX, 136).