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Presas. Tributos. 
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Recomendaciones. Virreyes. 
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Rio Colorado. Vicario de la Merced. 
REALES CEDULAS Y ORDENES. 
(ROYAL CEDULAS AND ORDERS. ) 
_This section comprises two series, distinguished as the Principales (prin- 
cipals) and the Duplicados (duplicates). They are not by any means iden- 
tical in contents, however. The series of the Principales is that which is best 
arranged and by far the most important from our standpoint. The file of 
Duplicados, it will be seen, contains a great deal of matter other than royal 
cédulas and orders. 
The distinction between these two classes of documents should be noted 
here. A cédula de consejo is a formally drawn document usually beginning 
“El Rey”, signed with the wooden stamp “ Yo El Rey’”’, countersigned 
(refrendada) by the secretary of the Council (Consejo), and bearing the 
rubrics of the members of the Council. It usually contains at the end an 
extracto, or summary, of its contents. Cédulas of great importance or for 
wide distribution were often printed, but the majority of them are in manu- 
script. A real orden por via reservada is a less formal despatch, issued by the 
Secretario de Estado y del Despacho Universal, in the king’s name. By order 
of Jan. I1, 1772, it was provided that duplicates of orders should be sent to 
New Spain with only the rubric of the secretary, in order to save the time 
necessary to secure the king’s rubric.” In only a few of the volumes are the 
cédulas and the orders filed separately. 
PRINCIPALES. 
(Principals; 243 volumes.) 
This series is on the ground floor of the archive, at the right as one enters 
the main door. It consists of 243 bound volumes containing the principals 
” The first plan was to include here lists of the principal items in this section and the 
next bearing on the United States, but they became so bulky as to be impracticable. 
8° A. G.,, Reales Cédulas y Ordenes, vol. 100. 
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