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impossible to say at present just what they may consist of. Nevertheless, two 
general classes may be distinguished: (a) Old fiscal records of the secular 
government, and (b) papers from the archive of the archbishopric of Mexico 
and from convents. 
(a) Fiscal Records. 
Of these there are several thousands of bound volumes and legajos of un- 
bound papers. Though they are numbered, they are almost altogether un- 
classified, and only an imperfect idea of their contents can be given. They 
extend in broken files over a large part of the period of the Spanish régime, 
and come from various offices of the Hacienda, but as they are scattered and 
unarranged, all that can be done at present is to indicate some of the general 
classes of documents seen in the heaps and alcoves. 
PRINCIPAL CLASSES. 
Accounts. The largest single class is that of accounts of the Treasury Gen- 
eral and of the different branches of Hacienda. Of these there are: 
Libros Manuales de Cargo y Data, many volumes. These show in sum- 
mary form the items of income and outgo for each year. 
Accounts of the various government monopolies, as Renta del Tabaco, 
Fabrica de Polvora, Naipes, Pulques, etc. Separate books for 
each branch. 
Accounts of the general and special tributes (tributos). 
Id. of the Real Tribunal del Consulado at Acapulco and Vera Cruz. 
Reports of the treasurer to the viceroy, and correspondence of the treasurer 
with other officials. 
Royal cédulas directed to the officials of the Real Hacienda. Numerous bound 
volumes. 
Correspondence of the Guarda General of the Reales Almacenes (Royal 
Storehouses) with the Treasury General; libros de cargo y data, 
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Expedientes formed in the Notaria de Sequestros de la Inquisicion. 
Expedientes relating to the Monte Pio Militar. 
Reports of the director of the Government Lottery, and other correspondence. 
Expedientes relative to lands of Indian pueblos. 
Expedientes from the section of Indiferente de Guerra of the War Depart- 
ment. 
Accounts of the Treasury General with the College of San Fernando and its 
missions in California. 1777-1821. Several volumes concerning 
sinodos, freights, the Pious Fund, bequests to missions, etc. 
(b) Records from the Archive of the Archbishopric and from Convents. 
During the Era of Reform the ecclesiastical property of the Republic was 
taken into the custody of the secular government. At this time many of the 
records of the archbishopric of Mexico and of the various convents were 
thus taken charge of. Those that found their way to the general archive of 
the Hacienda are largely financial in their bearing. As has already been said, 
that archive now occupies the old archiepiscopal residence and it is believed 
that part of the records now there simply remained where they were left when 
the archbishopric vacated. The principal items noted were the following: 
Correspondence of the archbishop and the cabildo with the clergy of the 
archdiocese and of the whole Republic (eighteenth and nineteenth 
