186 Mexico: Archivo General 
Clero Regular (Regular Clergy). Colonial period. 
Correspondence of the viceroy with and about the regular clergy of the 
various orders. 
Clero Secular (Secular Clergy). Colonial period. 
Correspondence of the viceroy with and about the secular clergy, docu- 
ments from the Holy Office concerning the rights of the secular 
clergy, etc. 
Cofradias y Archicofradias (Religious Associations). Sixteenth to nine- 
teenth centuries. 19 volumes. 
The volumes are numbered and have dates on the flyleaves. They con- 
tain correspondence of the Secretaria del Virreynato and the Real 
Audiencia of Mexico concerning the founding of religious asso- 
ciations (cofradias, archicofradias, y hermandades), financial 
supervision of and administration of these institutions, etc. 
Comisaria General de M éxico (Commissariat- -General of Mexico). Period of 
the Republic. 
Hundreds of volumes. Accounts and correspondence. 
Comunidades (Community Property). Colonial Period. 
Records of the Contaduria General de Propios, Arbitrios, y Bienes de 
Comunidad de las Ciudades, Villas, y Lugares. Accounts, corre- 
spondence, etc., relating to community property of the pueblos. 
Consulado (see “ Tribunal del Consulado’’). 
Correos (Mails). Bound volumes, practically inaccessible. 
Cruzada (Crusade). Colonial period. 
Expedientes formed in the Secretaria del Virreynato concerning the 
administration of bulls of the Santa Cruzada. They contain bulls, 
correspondence of the viceroy with the intendants, the officials of 
the treasury, ecclesiastical authorities, etc. 
Desagiie (Drainage). Twenty or more volumes relating to the drainage of 
the city of Mexico. 
Donativos y Prestamos (Gifts and Loans). 
Encomiendas. Colonial period. 
The volumes examined contain financial records of the Contaduria Gen- 
eral de Tributos relating to encomiendas, cédulas granting enco- 
miendas, records of litigation, etc. Most of the expedientes were 
formed in the Superior Government of the viceroyalty. 
Expolios (Property left by prelates at death). 
The only volume which it was possible to get access to contained judicial 
proceedings relative to “ Expolios of the Bishop of Puebla ”’, 1714. 
Expulsion de Espaiioles (Expulsion of Spaniards). Period of the early Re- 
public. 65 bound volumes. 
They contain general regulations, as well as occasional records relating 
to expulsions from the northern provinces and departments. 
Ferrocarriles (Railroads). In legajos. Later nineteenth century. 
Papers from the Secretariat of Fomento concerning concessions to and 
administration of railroads, etc. 
Filipinas (The Philippines). The colonial period. About 40 volumes. 
Most of the documents relate to the period between 1716 and 1821. They 
consist of miscellaneous expedientes formed in the Secretaria del 
Virreynato regarding the administration of the Philippines. Many 
of the documents have high historical value. (See Robertson, 
Bibliography of the Philippine Islands, for a more extended notice 
prepared by the present writer. ) 
