García moved to La Bahía, Texas, following the orders of the military commander Joaquín de Arredondo, with the objective of reorganizing the presidio in the territory.
[1] On July 17 of that year,[2] García appointed Felipe Enrique Neri, a Surinamese nobleman of Dutch origin known as Baron de Bastrop, to the position of commissioner.
[1][2][3] Only nine days later, García founded San Felipe de Austin, which would later become the capital of the American colony of Texas.
[2] In addition, he established, for the first time, the electoral system that allowed the choice of certain individuals from Texas to the constituent Congress of Mexico, where they served as representatives of the province.
In 1823, after of leaving the governor's charge, Garcia assumed the post of commander general of Texas, and in 1824 he served as political chief of that territory.