Ecclesiastical Archives 385 
VIII. Documents in use at present by the Secretariat. 
(Regulations, tariffs [ardnceles], correspondence with the administrators 
of tithes, accounts, books of corporations, circulars of the cabildo, pas- 
toral letters, appointments. Among these documents are some dating 
from the eighteenth century.) 
IX. Cases (cémodas) 1 and 2 of the Archive of the Secretariat and of the 
Haceduria de Diezmos. 
(Several papers relating to tithes in Nayarit, California, Sonora, and 
Nuevo Leon were noted.) 
X. Ramo de la Capilla (Department of the Chapel). 1808-1850. 
Libros de Actas Capitularias (Books of acts of the chapters). 1552 to 
date. 
(There is a separate inventory which contains a summary of all the chap- 
ters from 1552. It is called “ Reduccién de las Materias mas interesantes 
que constan en los Libros de Actas Capitularias ”’, etc.) 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Among the miscellaneous books of the archive there is a manuscript copy 
of Mota Padilla’s Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva Galicia, claimed by 
the possessors to be the original. A note inside shows that it was purchased 
for 150 pesos on Sept. 7, 1837, by Manuel Crisostomo Najera, and given by 
him to the cabildo. 
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