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Estante 9. Padrones (Censuses). 
(One legajo is marked “1648-1671”. The rest relate to the nineteenth 
century. ) 
Estante 10. “ Cofradias, imposicién de capitulos de capellanias y de conven- 
tos, redenciones de cofradias y de conventos”’, testaments, ec- 
clesiastical subsidies, etc. 
Estante 18. Pious works, vouchers of exactions, titles of capellanias, licenses 
of curates and confessors, elections of curates (1703-1825), secu- 
larization of regulars, accounts of curacies, correspondence with 
private individuals, printed decrees, protests against the consti- 
tution of 1824, etc. 
Estante 12. Decrees of the state government, informaciones de bautizmos, 
renunciation of curacies, circulars of the bishops, records of loans, 
mortgages, etc., dispensations. 
Estante 18. Printed circulars and memorials, exhumations of remains, corre- 
spondence, petitions of ministers, etc. 
(In this estante are numerous cuadernos of the proceso of the beatification 
of Father Margil. It is much fuller than the unboxed one in the Cathe- 
dral of Mexico. It contains a life of Margil of more than 300 para- 
graphs, headed “ Letras commissivas p2 los Texas”. It contains also a 
cuaderno of testimony taken at San Antonio, Texas, in 1778, in regard 
to the career of Margil in Texas. The witnesses were for the most part 
old and ignorant persons, who could give no important information. ) 
Estanite 14. Libros de visita, libros de gobierno, cedularios (Books of episco- 
pal visitations, books of government, books of cédulas). 
Libros de visita. These contain occasional records of episcopal visitations 
from 1658 or earlier. Visitations of the northeastern frontier 
were noted for 1700, 1709, 1727, and 1759. 
Libros de gobierno. Register of the official acts of government af the 
bishopric, kept by the oficial mayor of the Secretaria. The earliest 
noted was for 1641. 
Cedularios. Files or registers of royal cédulas, papal bulls, briefs, etc. 
The inventory notes 17 vols., but the majority of them have dis- 
appeared. For the early period there were noted: vol. I, 1557- 
1682 ; vol. 3, 1683-1699 ; and a volume of copies, 1766-1796. There 
are numerous documents relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the 
northern frontier. 
Estante 15. Financial accounts of parishes. Recent. 
Estante 16. Obventions. 
Estante 17. Miscellaneous imprints. 
Estante 19. Habilitaciones matrimoniales. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A legajo marked “ Legajo 1°. Papeles que pueden servir por lo respectivo a 
la Luiciana ”, with the last three words stricken out and changed 
in pencil to “al Saltillo y Monterrey ”. Contains numerous docu- 
ments relative to the northeastern frontier for the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries. Among them the following were noted: 
Documents showing the origin of the curacy of Monterrey and of the 
doctrinas of the regulars of Nuevo Leon, and the state of these 
foundations from 1639 to 1680. 174 ff. 
Papers concerning the visitation of Nuevo Ledn and Coahuila by Bishop 
Garavito. 1681. 
