sentences:  (in 1813 the grant again confirmed by Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga, also again by Mexican Governor José Figueroa to Antonio María Ortega.Before stepping down as governor, Borica recommended reappointing José Joaquín de Arrillaga to organize military defenses for California.Borica was a member of the Royal Basque Society (1779-1793) and well under the influence of the Enlightenment's ideas of progress (cf.