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5. Documents pertaining to the residencia of the viceroy, Conde Galve. 
1689-1692. 
7. Report (Informe) by Capt. José de Berroteran on the state of the 
er of San Francisco de Conchos. Apr. 17, 1748. (Original.) 
Bi i 
(Important for frontier affairs.) 
8. Description (Explicacién) of the coast from Cabo de San Blas to 
Rio de Pascagula, by José de Evia. New Orleans, Dec. 1, 1782. 
(Original.) 8 ff. 
g. Instructions to Evia, alférez de fragata of the Real Armada, for 
mapping out the coast from Tampico to Bahia de San Bernardo. 
Mexico, Apr. 5, 1786. (Original.) 
10. Id. of Col. Fernando de la Concha, governor of New Mexico, to his 
successor, Col. Fernando Chacon. Chihuahua, June 28, 1794. 
(Copied in 1797.) 
(They contain a full report on Indian affairs, especially of the Comanches, 
Yutes, Navajos, Xicarillas, and Apaches.) 
11. Report (Instrucciones) relative to the origin of the Pious Fund of 
the missions of California. 1782. 27 ff. 
12. Expediente concerning the division of the missions of California 
between the Dominicans and the Franciscans. 1768-1772. 81 ff. 
(This is original. No. 3 above is a testimonio of the same expediente, 
though they are not identical in all respects. This contains corre- 
spondence of Fray Juan Pedro de Yriarte, the vicar-general, of the 
visitor Galvez, ndmina of the missionaries assigned to Pimeria Alta, etc.) 
Vol. 42. “ Misiones.” 1793. A survey of the state of the missions of New 
Spain made in 1793 in consequence of a royal order of Jan., 1784. 
(Copy.) 
(Printed in Dic. Universal de Hist. y de Geog., Mexico, 1853-1856. See 
reference elsewhere to the original of this report. 
Vol. 48. “ Luisiana.” A collection of papers made by Fathers Talamantes 
and Pichardo incident to the study of the Texas-Louisiana boun- 
dary question, 1805-1812, including notes concerning the commis- 
sion and its labors. (Copies.) 
(These papers are described more fully by Bolton in the Quarterly of the 
Texas State Historical Association, VI. 106-107, and VII.) 
1 (Opusculo 1.), 4, 5, 20, 26. Extracts or copies of printed items relat- 
ing to Louisiana (with commentaries by Talamantes) in (1) the 
Gazeta de Natchez, Dec. 23, 1800 (or 1806 ?), (4) Richer’s His- 
toire Moderne, ( 5) Le Clercq’s Histoire des Colonies, (20) Le 
Page du Pratz’s Loutsiane, (26) Jefferson’s presidential message, 
Dec. 2, 1807. 
(Opusculo II.). Documents concerning Talamantes’s commission, 
archives to be consulted, etc. 21 ff. 
2. History of Texas, by Talamantes. Copied largely from Espinosa’s 
Chronica Apostolica. 16 ff. 
3. Extracts from letters of Athanacio de Méziéres, 1779, with annota- 
tions by Talamantes. 
6. Copies (with reflections by Talamantes) of the royal cédula of 
Charles II. of Spain in regard to opening communication with 
New Mexico by way of Bahia del Espiritu Santo (1678, Reales 
Cédulas y Ordenes, vol. 16, p. 189) and of La Salle’s patent of 
May 12, 1678. 17 ff. 
