GUADALAJARA. 
Guadalajara, as a Spanish municipality, dates from the early years of the 
conquest (about 1541, on its present site). About 1561 it became the seat of 
the governor, the Real Audiencia, and the bishopric of Nueva Galicia, in all 
of which respects it was the successor of Compostela. The authority of the 
audiencia in judicial matters extended, even after the establishment of Nueva 
Viscaya, over all of the known north and northeast. The bishop’s authority 
had a like territorial extent until curtailed by the erection of the dioceses of 
Guadiana, or Durango (1620), Nuevo Leén (1777), and Sonora (1779). 
The records at Guadalajara, in so far as they were examined by the writer, 
proved in some respects disappointing. But the examination was of neces- 
sity relatively superficial. The principal collections of interest found were 
those of the ayuntamiento, the Archivo de Instrumentos Publicos, the Archivo 
aaa de Gobierno, the archives of the archbishopric, and the Biblioteca 
ublica. 
ARCHIVO DEL AYUNTAMIENTO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE AYUNTAMIENTO. ) 
Located in the Ayuntamiento Building. In the archive the following note- 
worthy records were encountered: | 
Acts of the cabildo of the ayuntamiento of Guadalajara. Broken files 
from 1709 to date. | 
(It is probable that there are older records which were not found.) 
Correspondence of the ayuntamiento from 1701. 
“Real Patronato.” 1 vol., beginning 1737. 
(This volume contains reports of chapters of the province of Santiago de 
Jalisco and of that of San Francisco de Zacatecas, appointments of 
clergy in Coahuila, Chihuahua, and other frontier places, etc.) 
Records of the Real Audiencia of Guadalajara. Eighteenth and early 
nineteenth centuries. Some 50 legajos. 
(These are principally records of the Juzgado General de Bienes de 
Difuntos. There are documents relating to cases of intestacy in 
Coahuila, Sonora, and other frontier places.) 
ARCHIVO DE INSTRUMENTOS PUBLICOS. 
(ARCHIVE OF PUBLIC INSTRUMENTS. ) 
Located in the Palacio de Jurisprudencia. 
Among the older records are the following, mainly from the Real Audiencia 
of Guadalajara. 
1. Aguas y Tierras (Lands and Waters). 1584-1820. 57 vols. 
(These are records of grants. There is an inventory of the volumes, giv- 
ing the volume reference, number of the title, the jurisdiction where it 
is located, and the name of the property. In a cursory examination there 
were noted grants in Chihuahua, Durango, Nueva Andalucia, Nueva 
Viscaya, Sinaloa, and Sonora.) 
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