The appearance of documentation related to the Royal Sèquia de Carcaixent begins at the same time that King Felipe IV approves the request to take water from the Xúquer river for irrigation. Proof of this is the most important document preserved in the institution, the Royal Privilege of November 17, 1654, for the construction of the new ditch.
There is little documentation from this period, due to the fact that the institution's archives used to be in municipal offices and suffered some disasters, one of them the revolutionary revolts of September 19, 1911 on the occasion of the Campaign against the War in Africa, where the exalted caused a great fire that affected the Juntes de la Sèquia where almost all the documentation was burned and they threw a large amount of documents of the Royal Sèquia into the public street , Consumer Administration and City Council.
As a result of the tension and conflict between the Mayor and the farmers who were part of the Administrative and Government Board, it was agreed in 1925 to build a new building in the courtyard of the old hermitage of the Blood or Children's School house , ceded for sale to the Community of Irrigation by the City Council for the resulting difference in favor of the City Council from works carried out by the Real Sequia in the building it occupied until then. It was inaugurated in 1929.
That's when the file goes to the new offices. In the new building, the archive was located on the ground floor until, in 1982, it suffered the devastating floods that affected the town. That was why it was decided to move it to the first floor of the building.
First I was in an interior room with little ventilation. The documentation was presented on shelves, part of which was arranged in bundles, the rest loose. The state of conservation was regular, there was documentation affected by the Pantanada of 1982, by fungi, moisture stains, fire and rust produced by metal objects.
Tasks were carried out to clean harmful elements and place the documentation in boxes and folders. A classification table adapted to the Institution was also created, a catalogue-inventory, manual files and the placement of plans in cylindrical cartridges.
Currently the archive has been moved to another annex, with natural lighting and ventilation, bigger and where metal shelves have been placed and the boxes are correctly ordered numerically.
Since 2020 it has been integrated into the Network Archive System (SAVEX) of the Generalitat Valenciana and visible in the Opac.
Extreme dates:
1654-Current
Documentary background:
Royal Canal Fund of Carcaixent.
Community of Farmers Fund and Rural Police Union.
Highlights:
November 17, 1654, for the construction of the new ditch. Approve a script of 23 chapters. The cover of the book is brown leather with a central engraving in an oval shape and a legend that says "SACO ESTE PRIVILEGIO MARTIN TALENS AÑO 1654", the leaves are parchment and it is written in Latin and Valencian. Restored on the occasion of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the construction of the Royal Sèquia de Carcaixent.
1676 and to carry out the last phase of the construction two more censuses or mortgages will be made, one of 2,000 pounds of which the name of the lender is unknown and the other of 4,000 pounds, equivalent to 140,000 wages, lent by Na Ines Sanz de Valencia This mortgage was paid off in 1857, 191 years to a successor of Na Ines Sanz, being Mayor of Carcaixent Jose Talens Cucó and Síndic of the Canal Juan Bautista Carbonell.
Renovated by another in 1998-1999, the land occupied by the Real Sèquia de Carcaixent consists of 12.6 meters until the crossing with the Albaida river and from this point it continues with a width of 5 meters and a triangular section until the Partidor de Carcaixent, comprising a total surface of 22 hectares, 7 areas, 97 centiares and 42 square decimetres, distributed in different sections and works that integrate the ditch along the terms it crosses.
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