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Financial records of the diocese, from the Contaduria and Haceduria. 
Records of the building and repair of the Cathedral and of the church of 
Guadalupe, etc. 
Titles to properties of the diocese. 
Letters of the collectors of the various rents to the Contaduria. 
Blotters (Borradores) of the correspondence of the steward’s office 
(Haceduria) for various years of the nineteenth century. 
Padrones, or censuses, of various towns in Mexico and Querétaro for 
various years of the eighteenth century. These are perhaps the 
most valuable historical records, as a class, in the collection. 
Records of trials, criminal and otherwise, that came before the juzgados 
(tribunals) of the archbishopric at Mexico and at Toluca. The 
larger part of them are from Toluca. 
Appeals to the Notaria of the Archbishopric. 
Books of examinations of candidates for benefices. 
Requests for orders of different grades. 
Indulgences. 
Matrimonial records (Matrimoniales). 
Printed circulars and dispositions received and issued. 
SPECIAL ITEMS. 
Of pieces having special interest or direct bearing only the following were 
noted : 
A legajo relating to the purchase, liberation, and sale of slaves of the 
convent of La Encarnacién. Seventeenth and eighteenth cen- 
turies. 
Books of account of the tithe on Indians of the diocese. 
A book entitled “ Representaciones Varios”. These are mainly copies 
of representations of the provincial councils to the viceroy or to 
the pope. Among the items are: 
Dissertation concerning ecclesiastical immunity. No date, but ap- 
parently a memorial of the Council of 1761. 
“Representation Concerning Immunity” to the viceroy, by the 
Council of 1761. About 15 pp. 
“Carta Latina al Sumo Pontifice sobre Jesuitas.” Oct. 23, 1771. 
About 20 pp. 
Letter (in Spanish) of the council to the king concerning Jesuits. 
Oct. 26, 1771. It summarizes the history of the Jesuit order and 
its present decadence. 23 ff. 
Memorial of the Council of 1771 to the viceroy concerning the erec- 
tion of more bishoprics and concerning the system of repartimien- 
tos. It gives a good summary of many phases of ecclesistical and 
mission history in the northern provinces. Oct. 24, 1771. 
Process (Proceso) of Fray Antonio Margil de Jesus. 
(Twelve or more cuadernos relating to the canonization of this missionary. 
The first cuaderno covers the acts of 1760-1761; no. 12, those of 1778. The 
original legajo on the shelf lacks some of the cuadernos, but in a box 
ready for shipment to Rome there is, it is supposed, a complete copy of 
the proceso. The most important part of the proceso, perhaps, is the 
biography of Margil, given in the ninth cuaderno.) 
