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INSTRUCCION PUBLICA: JUSTICIA. 
(Public Instruction: Justice; 94 volumes.) 
The volumes are numbered, and have dates on the fly-leaves. The period 
covered is 1821-1857. The papers are from different offices which had super- 
vision of educational matters during the period, chiefly the Primera Secre- 
taria de Estado, the Ministerio de Justicia, and the Contaduria de Propios. 
The documents consist of regulations concerning instruction, and correspond- 
ence with the heads of colleges and schools and with departmental and state 
governments, regarding the establishment of schools, their financial support, 
etc. uct he general regulations, of course, at times affected the northern 
provinces. 
JOUSLICifes ARCHIVO; 
(Justice: Archive; 206 volumes.) 
Routine correspondence, chiefly relating to the interior regimen of the Sec- 
retaria de Justicia. Apparently of slight historical value. 
MARINA, 
(MARINE: 200 or more volumes ; sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. ) 
The volumes have no indices. The dates and titles on the backs or inside 
are the best guide to quick use, but some of the volumes are so miscellaneous 
and cover such long periods that this aid often fails. The volumes were not 
shelved when the examination was made, hence it was difficult and imperfect. 
The materials of the section are primarily correspondence of port and 
marine Officials with the superior government of the viceroy, and, aiter the 
War of Independence, with the Department of Marine. The documents 
touch every conceivable matter connected with the marine. Matters of com- 
merce occupy first place, such as reports of entry and clearance of vessels, 
ship registers, fair and port regulations, regulations of the Philippine trade, 
building of dockyards and lighthouses, etc. Besides the regular correspond- 
ence there are many expedientes concerning special cases of contraband trade, 
piracy, shipwrecks, etc. While the section relates primarily to commerce, 
documents of military and political significance abound. Such, for example, 
are those relating to the Armada de Barlovento, defence and supplies of coast 
places, reports of movements of foreign vessels, consular and diplomatic 
reports. 
Bearing directly on the history of the United States the following classes 
of materials are especially noteworthy: Records of trade, legitimate and 
contraband, with Mexico, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; special 
references to Florida and Louisiana; Pacific coast affairs. In the volumes 
entitled “San Blas”, of which there are many in the series, there is much 
matter on the movements of vessels to the Philippines (with diaries), up the 
Pacific coast, supplies for Nueva California, diaries, Nootka Sound affairs. 
The principal items of direct bearing noted are listed. Because the volumes 
are not numbered the items are arranged chronologically, and the references, 
contrary to the general plan of the Gude, are put after the items. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ITEMS. 
Succor for Florida, 1706. Vol. 1673-1770. 
The restitution of the English vessel Paca de Lana captured at Campeche. 
Vol. 1788. 
