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Death of five American bandits at Bavispe. 1881. 
Complaints of irregularities in the American administration of customs 
at El Paso, San Saba (Tucson) and Piedras Negras. 1881. 
(Correspondence similar to the foregoing continues to 1893.) 
Ciencias y Artes, etc. 
(Sciences and Arts, etc. 1824-1884. 3 cajas.) 
Caja 1824-1868. 
“ Material Improvements.” Requests by foreigners for patents, indus- 
trial monopolies, and concessions. Such items are included as 
schemes for paper factories, pearl fisheries, silk culture, mints, 
building of steam engines, discovery of lost treasures at sea, work- 
ing of old mines, etc. 
Search for lost treasures of art ; expositions ; scientific expeditions. 
The carrying off from Jalapa of plans and maps of the Drainage (De- 
sagie) of Huehuetoca made by General Rincon, by American sol- 
diers who occupied his house. Correspondence. 1848. 
Recovery of 70 plans or maps of the state of Mexico taken by General 
Cadwallader from Toluca. Correspondence. 1848-1906. 
Caja 1870-1879. 
Collection of birds. 
Seventeen maps of the period of the Empire, sent to the Secretariat of 
War. Correspondence. 1876. 
Coast surveys, maps made by U. S. vessels, formation of a collection of 
maps in the Secretariat of Fomento. Correspondence. 1876-1877. 
Concessions to Americans. Correspondence with various consulates. 
Comercio. 
(Commerce, 1825-1882. 7 cajas.) 
Caja 1825-1849. 
General: Correspondence with the legation in the United States, the 
consuls in the United States, and the U. S. minister in Mexico con- 
cerning commercial matters ; movement of U. S. vessels, invoices 
(facturas) sent by the consuls, especially from New Orleans; cir- 
culars relative to these matters. 
PRINCIPAL ITEMS. 
Reports of American contraband trade in Mexican ports. 1826, 1830, 
1835, 1836, 1849 (on the Rio Bravo). 
“Drawbacks.” Correspondence of the legation in Washington with the 
U. S. Secretary of State. 1831. 
Santa Fé trade. Petitions by citizens of the United States for permission 
to open trade with Chihuahua by way of the Pecos and El Sacra- 
mento. 1831. 
Smuggling at Vera Cruz. Described in a letter by J. Malcolmson to Lucas 
Alaman. 1831. 
American traders in Chihuahua and Sonora. Correspondence with offi- 
cials in Santa Fé, Tucson, Chihuahua, etc., 1837. 
Report by the commandant of New Mexico to the effect that Carlos Bent, 
of Fort Bent, had reported that the United States was about to 
establish a line of forts from the Napestle to the Chato and other 
points, to mark the boundary. 1843. 
