Old Records 341 
Complaints by the Indians of Senectt of bad treatment by officers and 
missionaries. 1823. ; 
Id. by the ayuntamiento of Monterrey, N. L., against Commandant 
Lopez. 1822. 20 ff. 
Petition of two citizens of Béjar to recover property sequestrated during 
the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition. 1822. 10 ff. 
Complaint by Salvador Carrasco, of Texas, of ill treatment by Arre- 
dondo in connection with a charge of contraband trading. He 
ae reward for his good offices with the Tonkawa Indians. 1822. 
20 ff. ! 
Complaint of bad treatment by Indians of Sonora. 1823. 
Tranquilidad Publica (Public Tranquillity). 
As is indicated by the title, this section consists of correspondence of the 
Department of Interior Relations with the local and central 
authorities concerning the public peace. Part of the legajos are 
labelled “ Seguridad Publica” (Public Security). These refer 
more specifically to minor police affairs than to political matters. 
But since they overlap so frequently with “ Tranquilidad Pub- 
lica”’, they are incorporated here in their chronological order. 
The more usual kinds of documents are formal reports of govern- 
ors on political conditions, on dangerous foreigners, Indians, pro- 
nouncements, insurrections, expulsion of Spaniards, etc. Under 
these heads are contained many data relative to the frontier prov- 
inces during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. There 
are also many important documents on the Empire of Iturbide 
and the Maximilian Intervention, as well as on the numerous 
other political disturbances of the period. In some cases the 
legajos for a given year are not numbered. This may necessitate 
the handling of several legajos of the same date in order to find 
the documents referred to here. 
Legajo 1822. 
No. 1. Long’s Expedition. ‘“ Sumaria Informaciédn formada con 
varios oficiales de la Partida del que se decia Gral. Long, iniciados 
de conspiracion contra el Sr. Governador de la Provincia de Téxas 
Coronel Dn. José Felix Trespalacios.” Saltillo, 1822-1823. 117 ff. 
No. 7. Report by the commandant-general of a conspiracy at Re- 
fugio, Texas, headed by José Domingo Castaneda. References 
to Bernardo de Gutiérrez. 1822. 
1822. 23, 25, y 26. 
No. 25. An expediente concerning the establishment of Austin’s 
colony in Texas. 1822-1823. 12 ff. 
(Minutes of notes passed between the secretary of relations, the secretary 
of the Consejo de Estado, the Commission of the Consejo de Estado, 
and Iturbide, between Nov., 1822, and Jan. 17, 1823.) 
Law of Jan. 3, 1823, concerning colonization. 
No. 34. Turbulence in San Buenaventura, Chihuahua. 1826. 
No. 51. Concerning danger of a revolution at Nacogdoches headed 
by an Englishman and a Spaniard (names not mentioned). 1826. 
16 ff. 
(Correspondence of the minister of war with the local authorities, trans- 
mitted to the minister of relations.) 
No. 52. Concerning the death of the immigrant Anderson at Nacog- 
doches and the arrival of General Wavell. 1826. 9 ff. 
(Correspondence with the local authorities.) 
