Important events at the mission San luis obispo

Every year, missionaries had to write a report.  It allowed historians   to understand the productivity of  each mission.
For  example, in 1832, the records show an inventory of 5422 sheep,
2500 cattle, 700 hoses and 200 mules. It was also noted that there were 763 marriages, 2268 deaths and 2644 baptisms in a 60 year span.

Many Spanish soldiers were brutal to the Indians.
Pedro Fages was in charge of soldiers in 1770. Fray Serra didn’t get along with Pedro Fages. So Serra asked the government to remove Fages as military head. He received a document stating that the missionaries could control the Indians instead of the military. At that time, this document was considered Native American Bill of Rights, which created cruelty towards them such as they had to do the hardest work, do labor in the burning tropical sun and they had to work for years doing hard labor.