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Archivo General 
Legajo 3859. 1829-1843. Loans by the United States to the Cortes. 
Legajo 409. Treaty with the United States. 1843-1872. 
Legajo 484, Ordenanzas del Consulado. 1736-1772. 
Legajo 544. Cartas de Cuentas de Espajia, de Filipinas, y de Presidios. 1677- 
1734. 
(Nine books in parchment. A carta de cuentas is a report containing a 
summary statement of accounts.) 
Legajo 583. Misiones. 1655-1672; 1666-1674; 1672-1608. 
(Four books in parchment containing accounts of funds furnished to 
missions of the order of San Francisco in the Provincia de Santo Evan- 
gelio, Custodia de Panuco,; Provincia de San Pedro y San Pablo de 
Michoacan, and Santiago de Jalisco, and in Nueva Viscaya; the Com- 
pany of Jesus in Nueva Viscaya; the Augustinians and Dominicans in 
various places, etc.) 
Legajo 584. Misiones. 1664-1670; 1654-1681 ; 1673-1681. 
(Similar to no. 583. Four books in parchment. Payments for the New 
Mexico missions especially were noted. One of the books is “Libro 
quinto de Chichimecas ”, 1664-1681. It contains important data for New 
Mexico. The items are entered person by person, mission by mission, 
presidio by presidio, etc.) 
Legajo 619. Bound volumes in parchment containing memoranda of licenses 
to ecclesiastics, appropriations for them, etc. 1731-1804. 
Legajo 620. Seven books containing records of the collection of the media 
anata, etc. 1729-1700. 
2. RECORDS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. 
Of these the following are the principal series. 
Interior. About 100 volumes, various dates. | 
ae de créditos, minutes of liquidation, records of amortizement, 
etc. 
Exterior (Foreign). 
Foreign Debt, 1837-1858. 17 vols. 
Debt contracted in London. 1850-1859. 17 vols. 
(Correspondence of the Junta de Crédito Publico.) 
Debt contracted in the United States in accordance with the convention 
of July 28, 1868. One legajo, marked “ Acreedores y Pagos. 
Concluido. 1877-1890. Carpeta 1”. There are probably other 
legajos which I did not see. 
Archivo de la Direccién de la Deuda Publica. 1885 to date. Several hundred 
volumes. 
3. MISCELLANEOUS CLASSIFIED SERIES. 
Manual de Cargo y Data of the Tesoreria General. Complete file, 1800-1858. 
“Tmperio.” A special file of financial records of Hacienda for the period of 
the Intervention. 1862-1866. 
Correspondence of the department of Hacienda with that of War, 1821 to 
date. Several hundred legajos. 
Pension records. 
Custom-house reports and accounts. 
4. UNCLASSIFIED OLD RECORDS. 
The records of most interest to us are the older ones, of which there are sev- 
eral collections. On account of their crowded and disordered condition it is 
