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Vol. 263. 
Concerning payment of salary due Manuel Trujillo as secretary to the 
governor of California. 1841. 3 ff. : 
Vols. 677-678. Correspondence on the filibustering expedition of Napoleon 
Zerman(?) and associates in Baja California, with the Rebecca 
eg and La Restauradora, one of them bearing the U. S. flag. 
1856. 
Concerning loans in San Francisco. 1855-1856. 
JUSTICIA: ECLESIASTICA. 
(Justice: Ecclesiastic; 188 volumes.) 
A series covering the period from 1821 to about 1861, when the department 
of Negocios Eclesiasticos was suppressed (see p. 374). They are made up 
mainly of expedientes of correspondence and reports concerning the ecclesias- 
tical matters coming under the jurisdiction of the Secretariat of Justice and 
Ecclesiastical Affairs. There are no indices, and only a detailed examination 
of the volumes will reveal their contents. Such an examination was made of 
the first thirty-one volumes, and occasional volumes taken at random later. 
Enough was encountered to show that the section has considerable material 
of direct bearing on the United States. 
A great deal can be learned from these documents about the Spanish ec- 
clesiastical régime, because in the correspondence concerning the readjustment 
the old arrangements were often reviewed and discussed. 
The early volumes bear mainly on the period 1821-1830, which was one of 
important readjustment in ecclesiastical affairs. Among the documents are 
correspondence of the church authorities with the minister of justice, statisti- 
cal and other reports of the provincials of the Franciscan order, reports of 
cofradias, brotherhoods (hermandades), and monasteries ; correspondence of 
the bishops (notably those of Sonora and Nuevo Leon) ; trials of individual 
clergymen; circulars, etc. Among the topics of most interest noted are the 
secularization of the missions, suppression of the monasteries, and expulsion 
of the Spanish clergy. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ITEMS. 
The following documents were encountered in an examination of the first 
31 and several later volumes. 
Vol.1. Documents (correspondence, reports from the different localities) 
concerning the suppression of monasteries and hospitals, seculari- 
zation of the regular clergy. Circulars, etc. 
Vols. 2,3. Secularization of the regular clergy. 1821-1828. 
Petitions of clergy, reporting their service in the War of Independence. 
Complaints of and against the clergy. 
Trials of individual members of the clergy. 
Vol. 8. 
Expediente concerning the payment of sinodos to Fr. Marcelino Mar- 
quinez. Alta California. Papers from the Secretariat of the vice- 
royalty. 1821. 25 ff. 
Vol. 15. Correspondence with the Extraordinary Mission (“ Misién Extra- 
ordinaria”’) from Mexico to the Papal Court. 1844-1857. 
Correspondence of the legation with the pope. 
Statistics of churches and orders at the time of the confiscation. 
