384 Guadalajara 
Letter by Alonso de Leon to the bishop, telling of the entrada into Texas. 
Aug. 25, 1689. 
Declaration of Gregorio de Salinas Varona and other documents relative 
to missions of Coahuila. 1694. 
Libro de visita of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. 1710. 
Autos of the provision of curates of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, 1712, in 
consequence of the visitation. 
Autos of a visitation of Coahuila. 1753. 
Circular of the “ Bishop of Guadalaxara, Nuevo Reyno de la Galicia, y 
de Leén, Provincias del Nayarith, Californias, Coahuila, y 
Texas ’’, concerning abuses of the right of sanctuary. 1764. 
ARCHIVO DEL CABILDO ECLESIASTICO DEL ARZOBISPADO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL CHAPTER OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF 
GUADALAJARA. ) 
Located in the Secretaria del Cabildo, in the Cathedral. The archive is 
well arranged and well indexed. Each section is filed chronologically, and 
there is a separate inventory for each department. 
CLASSIFICATION. 
I. Documents in the “ Cajon de Secretaria”. 1712 to date. 
(Miscellaneous documents, but notably records of the subdivision of the 
jurisdiction of the archbishropic of Guadalajara. Thus, records of the 
erection of the bishoprics of Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, and 
Colima were noted.) 
II. Ramo de Hacienda. Expedientes and individual papers relative to the 
department of hacienda of the secretariat of the cabildo. 1694- 
1899. 
(Salaries, accounts of building the cathedral and other churches, titles to 
lands and houses, donations, and correspondence with the administra- 
tors of tithes. Some of the documents relate to Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, 
and Texas.) 
III. Ramo de Gobierno (Department of Government) of the secretariat. 
1733-1798. 
(Organization of the secretariat, appointments of officers, such as the 
jueces hacedores, regulations of elections, correspondence of the secre- 
tariat, etc.) 
1796, no. 40, is “ Cuadernos de Dependencias Antiguas”. It relates to 
tithes in California and Coahuila. 
ITV. Relaciones Exteriores (Exterior Relations). 1754-1708. 
(Correspondence with secular and ecclesiastical authorities in New Spain 
and outside. ) 
V. Ramo de Justicia (Department of Justice). 1741-1801. 
(Organization and administration of justice, causas, criminal and civil, 
mainly concerning tithes and testaments. ) 
VI. Ramo de Beneficencia (Department of Charity). 1727-18098. 
(Establishment of orphan’s homes, etc.) 
VII. Ramo de Culto (Department of Worship). 1651-1808. 
(Foundation of special altars, capellanias, matters of canonization, cere- 
monial, regulations of masses, etc.) 
1765, Nov., no. 5, is a “ cuaderno concerning the canonization of Father 
Margil ”. 
