188 Mexico: Archivo General 
Indiferenie de Guerra (War, Miscellaneous). 
Several hundred volumes of miscellaneous materials for the period of 
the viceroys and of the Republic. The section was too miscel- 
laneous and too large to admit of detailed examination and de- 
scription. Enough was done, however, to learn that it contains 
at least occasional documents of considerable importance. For 
example, volume 524 of the section of History was recently trans- 
ferred from this section. The volumes comprise miscellaneous 
military correspondence of the central government. Subjects 
noted were appointments, causas, hojas de servicios, discharges, 
pardons, desertion, pensions, muster rolls, etc. 
Informes (Reports) of Fonseca y Urrutia. 25 volumes. 
This series consists of a manuscript copy of Fonseca y Urrutia’s Historia 
General de Real Hacienda, written in 1791-1792 in the form of a 
report to the viceroy, Revilla Gigedo, and printed in Mexico in 
1853. It is shelved with the Correspondence of the Viceroys. 
Infidencias (Cases of treason). Many volumes. Period of the War of 
Independence. 
Cases before the Sala del Crimen of the Real Audiencia de México. There 
should be valuable documents bearing on the northern provinces. 
For one such coming from this section, see Secretaria de Rela- 
ciones Exteriores, Caja 1817-1824. Some of the documents in Gar- 
cia’s Documentos Histéricos Mexicanos are also from this section. 
Inquisicién (Inquisition). More than 1000 volumes. Sixteenth to nine- 
teenth centuries. 
These volumes are general records of the Inquisition. ‘They consist 
mainly of causas, or trials, before the Holy Office, for various 
offenses, such as bigamy, heresy, records of the financial adminis- 
tration of the Holy Office, appointments, etc. There is no inven- 
tory, but a help to ascertaining the contents bearing on the terri- 
tory of the United States is the “ Certificacién de los Secretarios 
del Secreto del Sto. Oficio de la Inquisicion ”’, found in Historia, 
vol. 301. This consists of a list made in 1807 of certified cases in 
which the Inquisition exercised jurisdiction in New Mexico, 
Texas, Florida, and Louisiana before the date of the report. This 
list gives extracts of cases affecting New Mexico for 1661, 1662, 
1663, 1667, 1668, 1669, 1670, 1688, 1689, 1695, 1699, 1720, 1731; 
Florida, 1700, 170I, 1702, 1703, 1705; Texas, 1737, 1751, 1800, 
1807. The report was made in connection with the Louisiana 
boundary question. 
(See the London Times, October 10, 1912, for important materials regard- 
ing Francis Drake discovered in this collection by Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, 
and to be published in a volume by the Hakluyt Society.) 
A selection of about seventy volumes from this archive is in the Museo 
Nacional (q. v.). 
Intendencias (Intendancies). Colonial period, apparently 1786-1821. 
The section is not large. The documents consist of correspondence with 
| and concerning intendants, appointments, financial reports, etc. 
Intestados (Intestates). 
Judicial. Colonial period. 
Records of the Real Audiencia of Mexico. The volumes examined con- 
tain civil and criminal cases before the audiencia, opinions of the 
civil and the criminal fiscals (fiscales de lo civil y de lo criminal), 
and of the asesor general of the viceroy, etc. 
