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| Andrés Almonester y Roxas signed
this receipt acknowledging payment of his one hundred-peso salary for the year 1797. Almonester held the
position of Regidor Alférez Real (Royal Standard Bearer), the highest-ranking office in the
Cabildo's hierarchy.
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Almonester (1725-1796) was a native of Mayrena in Spain. He came to Louisiana with Governor Alejandro
O'Reilly in 1769 and became one of the wealthiest men in the province, largely through his real estate
holdings and developments. Almonester was also one of Louisiana's most important early philanthropists—he
built a new Charity Hospital for New Orleans and rebuilt St. Louis Cathedral and the Presbytere after they
were destroyed by fire.
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