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Fraccién 4%, Pensionistas Militares (Military Pensionaries). Several hun- 
dred legajos. 
Fraccién 5%. Muertos (Deceased). Not yet separated from the other sec- 
tions. 
Fraccion 6%. Tropas (Troops). Personal data relating to soldiers below the 
rank of teniente. All others are in Fracciénes 2 and 3%. Thou- 
sands of legajos. 
Fraccion 7*, Particulares (Private Persons). Relations of civilians with the 
Department of War. 
Fraccion 8*. Documentacion Periddica de los Cuerpos del Ejército y Armada 
Nacional (Periodical Documentation of the Divisions of the Na- 
tional Navy and Army). Routine monthly reports. Perhaps 
20,000 legajos from various divisions of the army and navy, begin- 
ning in 1821. Arranged by divisions and regiments. This section 
should contain very valuable matter. 
Fraccion 9%, Libros de las Comandancias de los Cuerpos y de los Departa- 
mentos de la Secretaria (Books of the Commandancies of the 
Divisions and of the Departments of the Secretariat). From 1821. 
Fraccioén 10%. Coleccion de leyes é impresos referentes a Guerra (Collection 
of laws and imprints relative to war). 
Causas Remitidas (Causes Remitted). 2%. Zona Militar. Fracciones 2? 
y 62. About 30 legajos. 
ARCHIVO DE LA BIBLIOTECA. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE LIBRARY.) 
This collection is an overflow of the Archivo General of the secretariat. It 
is preserved in the rooms of the Biblioteca of the department, upstairs. It 
contains the following series that have seemed worthy of note here: 
SECCION DE VARIOS ASUNTOS. 
(Section of Miscellaneous Matters.) 
There are in this division some 1600 large legajos of miscellaneous docu- 
ments extending in time from 1706 to 1853. Only the first fifteen legajos fall 
before 1820. An examination of all of the legajos before 1821 and occasional 
ones thereafter shows the earlier ones to be the most important for our pur- 
poses. The general nature of the documents can be gathered from the details 
given below. Many of the papers are from the Seccién de Indiferente de 
Guerra, of the Secretaria del Virreynato, and from the Fraccién de Opera- 
ciones, Secretaria de Guerra y de Marina. The larger bulk of the papers after 
1821 are files of revistas (reviews), lists of invalids, pensionaries, reports of 
supplies, clothing, etc., for the army. While the collection as a whole has not 
a very high value, there are in it occasional documents of importance. Be- 
cause of its miscellaneous character, a person studying any given period may 
find it necessary to go through all of the legajos if he would be sure of 
exhausting the materials. 
Legajo 1706-1785. Relations with Great Britain. 
Statement to the viceroy by Nicolas Lopez de Landa, concerning freedom 
of trade in Mexico. 
Royal order requiring an increase of the defenses of New Spain, espe- 
cially of Vera Cruz, for fear of the English in the West Indies. 
Jan. I, 1740. 
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