402 «Zacatecas. 
PRINTED WORKS AND PAINTINGS. 
The library contains a large collection of religious and historical works. 
The walls are decorated with a rare collection of old paintings of the monastic 
type of the early eighteenth century. 
ARCHIVE OF THE PROVINCE OF SAN FRANCISCO DE ZACATECAS. 
There is still in existence at Zacatecas the monastery which was the head- 
quarters of the Province of San Francisco de Zacatecas. The province dates 
from the sixteenth century, but the present building is relatively modern. 
Father Zephyrin Engelhardt informs me that nothing is left of the archive. 
If there are any remains they should be of value, for the province had num- 
erous missions and monasteries in the frontier provinces. In 1736, when 
Arlegui’s Chrémica de la Provincia de N. S. P. S. Francisco de Zacatecas 
(Mexico, 1737) was written, there were still in operation, on the northern 
frontier, missions in Nueva Viscaya at Casas Grandes and Conchos, and in 
Nuevo Leon at Cadereyta, Cerralvo, Pilon, etc. 
ARCHIVO DEL AYUNTAMIENTO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE AYUNTAMIENTO. ) 
This archive should have some value for the early connection of Zacatecas 
with the northern frontier. This is the town in which, as has been said, the 
Onate family lived, and from which this hero of New Mexico set out for his 
conquest. It is inferred from Amador’s history of Zacatecas that there are 
records of the sessions of the cabildo for the seventeenth century. 
ARCHIVO DE LA SECRETARIA DE GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE SECRETARIAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE.) 
In this archive there are incomplete files of records beginning in 1787, 
when the intendancy was established. The earliest bundles consist mainly of 
correspondence of the viceroy with the corregidor, the intendant, and the 
subdelegates, and of the corregidor with private individuals ( particulares). 
Up to 1802 there are only occasional bundles, after which the files are rela- 
tively complete. After 1802 there are expedientes on special subjects, and 
regular files of correspondence of the intendant with the officers of the Real 
Hacienda, private individuals (particulares), the viceroy, subdelegates, the 
ayuntamiento, and military commandants. Later there are files of corre- 
spondence of the governors with the jefes politicos, the prefectos, the state 
legislature, and the federal ministers. 
Down to 1851 the general arrangement of the documents is by divisions 
(ramos). Beginning in 1851 all documents for one year are in a single 
legajo, whose contents are arranged and indexed by expedientes. There 
is a general inventory of the archive, which, however, does not include 
the oldest papers nor all of the later ones. 
The archive is rich in materials for the history of the state since 1800. 
For the United States I noted routine correspondence concerning the Texas 
Revolution and the War of 1846-1848. Special items noted under these heads 
are: 
Ministerios, 1835. No. 483. Correspondence concerning the Texas war. 
J. Leg. 1. No. 202. Afio de 1847. “ Labors of the Junta de Convencion 
(in Lagos, Jalisco), in the war which the Mexican Nation sus- 
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