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volumes contain no indices or other guides. The material is filed in almost the 
reverse of the chronological order, the earliest materials being in the last 
volumes and vice versa. 
Notable among the materials of the section are the early Jesuit papers in 
vols. 25, 26, and 27 (including the precious Kino papers) ; the correspondence 
of Palou, Serra, Barri, Verger, Estavillo, Rivera y Moncada, Fages, and 
others concerning the establishment and support of the California missions 
during the critical period 1771-1773 ; the original of Palou’s diary of 1774, and 
the correspondence of 1776 concerning the establishment of the Yuma mis- 
sions, in vol. 15; and the documents of 1782-1783 relative to the establishment 
of the custodia of San Carlos de Sonora, in vol. 14. 
PRINCIPAL ITEMS. 
Vol. 1. 1779-1795. 
1. Finances of ex-Jesuit missions in Sonora. 1779-1803. 
Statement of what constitutes the pious works (obras pias) fund of the 
College of San Andrés in California and the Philippines. 1789- 
I81l. 
(See Engelhardt, Missions and Missionaries of California, I. 445, 455.) 
3. Statement by Fray Joaquin Garcia, president of the missions of New 
Mexico and Tampico, concerning supplies. 1792. 
4-6. Missionaries for the Province of Santo Evangelio. 1792-1793. 
Vol. 2. 1794-1818. 
1. Instructions to the missions as to the form of making reports to gov- 
ernors and the commandant-general of the Interior Provinces. 
1794. 
2-3. Reports and estados (statistical tables) of the Franciscan missions 
in Alta California and Pimeria Baja, and of the Dominican mis- 
sions in Baja California. 1792-1809. 
Statement of value of tithes collected in California. 1797-1817. By 
Noriega. Apr. 27, 1818. 
(Related correspondence with the viceroy in each case.) 
Vol. 3. 1818-1821. 
I. Expediente concerning the founding of missions in Lower California 
by the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. 1818-1821. 
2. Appeal of the governor of Texas for settlers for the mission of Con- 
cepcion, with the opinion of the fiscal. 1819. 4 ff. 
3. Petition of missionaries sent from Spain to New Mexico for assist- 
ance in their journey. 18109. 
4. Estados (statistical tables) of the missions of Sonora (1818) and 
Nuevo Santander (1820). 
Vol. 4. 1796-1804 (1813). 
Resenas (personal descriptions with biographical data) of missionaries 
sent from Spain to the Philippines (1796, 1798, 1803, 1813) and 
to California (1803, 1804). 
License to Fray Baldomero Lépez, Franciscan, to collect missionaries in 
Spain for California. 1802. 
Vol. 5. Lower California. 1790-1796. 
Resenas of missionaries sent from Spain to Lower California. 
Petitions to leave for Spain, by various missionaries. 
Supplies for the missions. 
Vol. 6. Accounts and inventories of various estates belonging to the Pious 
Fund of California. 1796-1829. . 
