Transcribing Spanish Civil Guard notes for 1917 (note 1 of 2)

Question

For the year 1917 in my great-grandfathers Civil Guard records there are two entries.

Here is the first note: The transcribed text:

El Excmo. Sr. [Señor] Director Gral. [General] del Cuerpo en comon [comunicación] del 2º xxx noº 235 [?] fecha 10 de Julio se dignó dar las gracias a este indº [individuo] por el distinguido comportamiento observado con motivo de las inxxxciones xxx en la provincia de Sevilla xxx de Marzo del año actual.

El Comandante Mayor

I have tried to work out the abbreviations based on the previous notes completed so I think I have been able to detect mode of the words. I am not sure of the exact abbreviation for comunicación, but it does look like comon to me.

I am not sure of the number that is referred to either. I think it might be 235.

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Translation

Translation based on the answer:

The Excellency Sir Director General of the Corps in communication of the 2nd negotiation nº 235 [?] dated 10 July deigned to thank this individual for the distinguished behaviour observed on the occasion of the floods that occurred in the province of Seville in the month of March of the current year.

The Major Commander

I might be wrong, but I found these resources about the floods:

1. PDF document: El estudio de las inundaciones históricas en Sevilla a través de fuentes periodísticas (siglo XX)
2. Web article: La gran riada.

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• Transcribing Spanish Civil Guard notes for 1917 (note 2 of 2)

Answer 1

My suggestions

El Excmo. Sr. [Señor] Director Gral. [General] del Cuerpo en comon [comunicación] del 2º Negociado nº 235 [?] fecha 10 de Julio se dignó dar las gracias a este indº [individuo] por el distinguido comportamiento observado con motivo de las inundaciones ocurridas en la provincia de Sevilla en el mes de Marzo del año actual.

El Comandante Mayor

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According to the Oxford Dictionary

deign

1.1 archaic with object
Condescend to give (something) ‘he had deigned an apology’

condescend
1.1 with infinitive
Do something in such a way as to emphasize that one clearly regards it as below one's dignity or level of importance.

If you don't like deign you can use condescend instead, they are marked as synonyms in the Collins Dictionary.

It's not used in a negative way in the original text but to emphasize that the Director General is doing a huge favor to your ancestor. That rank is the highest one in the Guardia Civil. Such person is usually busy with very important things like having a cup of tea with the King or the Prime Minister or whatever that he did. Instead of doing such things, he's wasting his precious time congratulating a simple guard.

It's used to remark the distance in the organization or in society between two persons and how gracious is the first one doing something in favor of the second one.

Hope that helps you to understand the sentence.