380 Guadalajara 
2. Libros de Govierno (Books of Government) of the Real Audiencia. 
1670-1752. 71 vols. 
(These volumes contain royal cédulas to and concerning the audiencia, 
governmental acts of the audiencia, as the appointment of alcaldes, regi- 
dores, and corregidores, concessions and licenses to individuals, ete. 
The collection should be highly important for the general administra- 
tion of the northern provinces.) 
3. Registro Publico de la Propiedad. Antiguo Archivo (Public Register 
of Property. Old Archive). Seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. 
377 vols. 
(Registration of titles, diligencias of measurements of land, maps of sur- 
veys, titles, correspondence of the audiencia with the viceroy and the 
Junta de Real Hacienda of Mexico, etc.) 
4. Notaries’ Protocol Books. Sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Several 
hundred volumes. 
ARCHIVO GENERAL DE GOBIERNO. 
(GENERAL ARCHIVE OF GOVERNMENT. ) 
This is an enormous collection. The present writer did not succeed in 
examining it personally, but the encargado, who has been long at his post, 
wrote for him the following statement regarding the early records: 
“ At the time of the war of intervention, in the years 1864-1866, the Gen- 
eral Archivo of the State of Jalisco was carried to the South when the Goy- 
ernment evacuated the city of Guadalajara, which the French army was about 
to occupy, and that archive was destroyed in the campaign made by the 
invader. In consequence, at present there are no papers of the period pre- 
ceding the dates cited.” The inventories, which the writer has seen, begin 
with 1866, but an examination will undoubtedly reveal many older papers. 
MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA (PUBLIC LIBRARY). 
The Biblioteca is under the authority of the governor of the state, and 
permission to consult the manuscripts can be obtained through him. The 
manuscript section is in the office of the director, who will show the earnest 
student all courtesy. 
SECCION DE MANUSCRITOS. 
This is a collection of 183 numbered items (volumes or series of manu- 
script volumes) , making in all about 200 separate volumes. They come chiefly 
from the monasteries of Guadalajara, the most important for our purposes 
as well as the most extensive collection being from the monastery of San 
Francisco. Of these the larger part are records of the Franciscan province 
of Santiago de Jalisco, whose headquarters were at that monastery. This 
province was cut off in 1606 from that of San Pedro y San Pablo, which, in 
turn, had been cut off in 1565 from that of Santo Evangelio. (Mota Padilla, 
Conquista de la Nueva Galicia, pp. 212-215.) The importance of these rec- 
ords arises from the fact that the province of Jalisco had numerous missions 
on the borders of the United States, in Coahuila and Sonora. For these mis- 
sions the collection is rich and indispensable. Only the general nature of the 
collection as a whole, with more specific designation of unusually important 
documents, can be given here. | 
A number of the volumes relate primarily to the inner affairs of the monas- 
tery of San Francisco de Guadalajara, but they may contain matter of im- 
portance relative to the province of Santiago de Jalisco. After no. 100 the 
documents are largely copies of religious books. 
