Minor Sections 191 
Salinas (Salines). Colonial period. 
Records of this branch of the Real Hacienda. 
Subdelegados (Subdelegates) of the Real Hacienda. Colonial period. 
Correspondence of the viceroy with and concerning the subdelegates. 
Appointments, duties, complaints, reports, etc. 
Tabaco (Tobacco). Colonial period and period of the Republic. Several 
hundred volumes. 
Correspondence of the viceroy with the Direccién General del Tabaco, 
reports of the factors of the different provinces, accounts of cost 
of freight on tobacco carried from the local factories, etc. For the 
period of the Republic there are reports of the local adminis- 
trators or directors to the Direccién General, correspondence of 
the latter, etc. 
Templos y Conventos (Churches and Monasteries). Circa 1575-1821. 30 
volumes. 
The volumes are numbered, with dates on the backs or on the flyleaves. 
The documents consist mainly of expedientes formed in the Supe- 
rior Government (Gobierno Superior) and the General Tribunal 
of Natives (Juzgado General de Naturales). They contain cor- 
respondence of the viceroy with the fiscal of the Real Hacienda, 
the fiscal protector general de Indios, local protectors, local church 
officials, bishops, abbots, etc. The subjects treated are the building 
and repair of churches and monasteries, the custody of church 
property, complaints by Indians to the viceroy regarding the bur- 
dens of church building, etc. The section overlaps as to subject 
matter with that of “Indios”. A few references to the frontier 
provinces, especially Nuevo Leon, were noted. : 
Temporalidades (Temporalities) . 
Records of the Direcci6n General de Temporalidades. 
Tesoreria (Treasury). Several hundred bound volumes, practically inacces- 
sible. 
The volumes examined contain accounts kept by the ministers of the 
tesoreria general de exército y real hacienda. 
Tesoreria del Congreso de la Union (Treasury of the Federal Congress). 
Expedientes, manuscript and printed. Recent dates. About 100 
legajos. 
Tierras (Lands). Over 3000 volumes. 
This section, which at present is the best organized and managed depart- 
ment of the archive, is not open to investigators, and the following 
facts concerning its contents were given me by the Director of the 
archive, Sefior Dr. Justino Rubio. The manuscripts are chiefly 
autos of grants, litigation concerning titles, the founding of pueb- 
los and missions. They came mainly from the audiencia and the 
Superior Government of the Viceroyalty, few being from the 
local jurisdictions. The Director of the Archivo General y Pub- 
lico says that the number of expedientes relating directly to grants 
in the United States is small. To utilize the papers of the section 
it is necessary to make a written request to the Director that a 
given document be sought. For this search a certain sum is paid 
in advance. When the papers are found certified copies are fur- 
nished upon payment of the fees and price of work fixed by law. 
