THE CATHEDRAL. 
ARCHIVO DE LA SECRETARIA DEL ARZOBISPADO DE MEXICO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF MEXICO.) 
This archive is in the northwest wing of the Cathedral, and is reached by 
entering the door next the Mercado de Flores. The collection is small and 
fragmentary for the period before 1866, previous to which date most of the 
archive was taken charge of by the civil government. A large portion of what 
is left of the old archive is comprised in the collections now in the Secretaria de 
Hacienda and the Museo Nacional (q. v.). The whole collection for the 
earlier period remaining here contains no more than some two hundred 
legajos and a few bound volumes. Besides miscellaneous volumes and 
legajos, the following classes of documents are represented by incomplete 
files: 
OLD RECORDS. 
Libros de Gobierno (registers of official acts of government). 
As the secretariat was organized in the eighteenth century the acts of gov- 
ernment were classified into five main groups, and the archive presumably con- 
tained corresponding groups of documents. The “ Libro de Govierno” for 
1749, whose divisions are essentially the same as those of the books still 
extant for several other years of the eighteenth century, gives the following 
classes: 
Division 12, Autos de Govierno ordinario, civiles y criminales, domi- 
cilios y residencias, Colocaciones de Prebendas, Capitulos, y Pro- 
vision de Curatos (ordinary acts of government, civil and crim- 
inal; domicils and residences; collocation of prebends, chapters, 
and provision of curates). 
Division 27. Autos de Ingressos y Professiones en los Conventos de 
Religiosos, Declaraciones de las Novicias de los Regulares, y 
Elecciones de Prelados (Autos of entries into and professions in 
the convents affiliated with the Cathedral, declarations of the 
novitiates of regulars, and elections of prelates). 
Division 3%. Autos de Dispensas de Proclamas, de Parentescos, Casa- 
mientos de Vagos, y Natales (Autos of dispensations of banns, 
kinship, marriage of vagrants, and of births). 
Division 42. Autos de Censos y Depdsitos, Exhibiciones, Redempciones 
y Moratorias de los Principales de los Conventos, Licencias para 
el reedificio de Casas de ellos y demas perteneciente a sus intereses 
(Autos of censos and deposits, exhibitions, redemption, and de- 
lays of the funds of the affiliated convents, licenses for the rebuild- 
ing and repair of the houses of these convents, or others in which 
they have an interest.) 
Division 52. Autos de Presentaciones de Curas Ministros de Doctrinas, 
Permutas, y Renuncias de Otros (Autos of presentation of minis- 
ters of doctrinas, changes, and renunciations of the same). 
(It will be noted that few of these functions have any important bearing 
outside the immediate territory of the diocese.) 
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