 Complete the following phrase:  José María de Echeandía, the first native Mexican to be elected Governor of Alta California, issued his Proclamation of Emancipation or Prevenciónes de Emancipacion on July 25, 1826. All Indians within the military districts of San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Monterey who were found qualified were freed from missionary rule and made eligible to become Mexican citizens; those who wished to remain under mission tutelage were exempted from most forms of corporal punishment. Catholic historian Zephyrin Engelhardt referred to Echeandía as ...an avowed enemy of the religious orders. Despite the fact that Echeandías emancipation plan was met with little encouragement from the neophytes who populated the southern missions, he was nonetheless determined to test the scheme on a large scale at Mission San Juan Capistrano. To that end, he appointed a board of comisianados commissioners to oversee the emancipation of the Indians. In response to the proclamation, Barona refused to take the oath of allegiance to what he saw as the bogus republic of Mexico despite the fact that he, along with all but two of the other Spanish missionaries, had previously sworn to the 