Californias 157 
16. Request of Fray José Navas, of the College of San Fernando, to be 
allowed to return to California. 1816. 
18. Death of Manuel Rodriguez, habilitado of the presidios of Califor- 
nias. 1818. 8 ff. 
Vol. 42. 
I. Papers of the Junta Directiva of the Pious Fund relative to the sale 
of Arroyo Zarco. 1833. 
2. Construction of the Sutil, in the port of San Blas. 1792. 
3. Transportation of thieves to the Philippines, in the English vessel 
Princesa Real. Only the title page. 1794. 
4-21. Mainly affairs of San Blas, excepting no. 16. 
16. Correspondence in consequence of a royal order of Apr. 3, 1783, 
that a boy brought by Bodega y Quadra from Nootka be educated. 
1783-1792. 5 ff. 
Vol. 48. “ Enteros y Libramientos a las Reales Cajas.”” 1798-1801. 
(The contents seem to deal mainly with interior Mexico.) 
Vol. 44. (Mainly papers from the First Secretariat of State.) 
1. Appointment of Ignacio Lastiri as administrator of the Pious Fund. 
1823. 65 ff. 
(Correspondence of the Secretariat of Relations, seccidn de beneficencia, 
and other departments. ) 
2. Secularization of four Coahuila missions within the jurisdiction of 
San Juan Bautista. June, July, 1823. 8 ff. 
(Papers of the First Secretariat of State: memorial of the provincial depu- 
tation to the Supreme Executive Power, asking for secularization, in 
conformity with the decree of the Spanish court, June 25; order (in- 
stancia) of the Supreme Executive Power; copy of the decree of Sept. 
30, 1813; order to the political chief (jefe politico) of Coahuila that the 
secularization be effected, July 13, 1823.) 
3. Secularization of seven Texas missions. 1823. 
(Petition by Refugio de la Garza, deputy from Texas, asking that they be 
delivered to the ordinary ecclesiastics; order to the political chief (jefe 
politico) to effect the secularization. Sept. 15, 1823.) 
4. Communication of the procurator of the missions of Lower Cali- 
fornia concerning the payment of sinodos and expenses for lamps 
at Loreto. July 19, 1829. 40 ff. 
5. Protest by the president of the Dominican missions, Pedro Gonzalez, 
against the order of commissioner Canon Agustin de San Vicente, 
to deliver the missions to the Fernandinos. 1823. 5 ff. 
. Expediente “ incident” to no. 1, above. 1824. 5 ff. 
. Request by the procurator of the missions of Lower California con- 
cerning supplies. 1823. 5 ff. 
(Papers of the First Secretariat of State.) 
8. Representations of Fray José Altimira and Fray Luis Gil de Ta- 
boada, missionaries of San Francisco and Santa Cruz, concerning 
the moving of the first and the extinction of the second mission. 
Transmitted by the jefe politico of Alta California. 1823. 
9-10. Expedientes “ incident” to no. 1, above. 
11. Communication of the deputation of New Mexico concerning the 
secularization of the missions of Taos, San Juan, and others, 
1824. 
12-15. Adaninisiration of the Pious Fund and minor affairs of the mis- 
| sions of Lower California. 1823-1824. 
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