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Correspondence with the American vice-consul at Mazatlan. 
Orders for the defense of the department. | 
Report of the arrival at Altar of filibusters under H. A. Crabb. 
Reports of the Mexican consul at Franklin of an expedition being formed 
at Tucson. 
Invasion of Tuxpam. Reports of an expedition being formed at New 
Orleans for this purpose. (See the legajo next above.) 
1857. Legajo no. 7. 
Correspondence concerning “ the impolite manner in which the Second 
Lieutenant of American Dragoons presented himself at the Fuerte 
de Calabasas for the purpose of arresting North American de- 
serters.” 
1857. Legajono. 11. Revolution in Sierra Gorda. , 
Implication of Thomas Sprague, who claims to be a commercial agent, 
with filibusters who have made attempts on Baja California. 
1857. Legajo no. 12. Yaqui troubles in Sonora. 
1857. Legajo no. 13. : 
Summary investigation (swmaria) of the filibustering expedition into 
Sonora which was cut off at Caborca. | 
Other troubles in Sonora. 
1858. Legajo no. 5. 
Letter by the reactionary General Francisco Pacheco, at New Orleans, to 
General José de la Parra, planning to cause a breach with Comon- 
fort. 
1858. Legajo no. 9. 
Disturbances by Carabajal. He reports that he counts on 1500 men of 
the national guard. 
Report by the commandant of the department of Tamaulipas that the 
commander of the American packet-boat Taylor has informed him 
that 1000 Americans are ready to set out from New York with 24 
pieces of artillery to put themselves at the disposition of Don San- 
tiago Vidaurri. 
1859. Legajo no. 4. 
Report by North American adventurers that Juarez is enlisting 3000 or 
4000 Americans, paying them with the goods of the Church. 
Fears of the annexation of Mazatlan to the United States. 
1859. Legajo no. 7. 
Authorization of an agent of Degollado to go to San Francisco, Califor- 
nia, to arrange a loan of $100,000 for the purchase of arms and 
munitions of war. 
(Legajos after 1859 not examined.) 
EXTINGUIDA FRACCION PRIMERA. 
(Extinguished First Division.) 
Fraccion Primera ceased to exist as a regular section in 1867. Thereafter 
the documents relating to military operations are distributed in various sec- 
tions. But there are similar materials for subsequent dates in the ‘“ Extin- 
guida Fraccion Primera”. This series contains over 100 legajos of miscel- 
laneous matter, reaching to present times. The chief classes of documents 
noted are “ diplomas ”’, movements of troops, telegrams. Part of the legajos 
are arranged alphabetically, with the initials on the membretes. I did not 
