TOW (& Answer)....

The week’s question was who was mayor of Los Angeles in 1798 with bonus points for naming an achievement of that individual.  The Mayor of Los Angeles from 1798-1799 was Guillermo Soto.  His major achievement was construction of a town juzado or jail.

The question (& answer) were taken from p. 58 of An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles 1781-1985. The book was written by Antonio Rios-Bustamante and Pedro Castillo and published by the University of California in 1986.