Civil Archives 407 
No. 24. Investigation to ascertain whether there were any English- 
men inthe city. 1719. 6 ff. 
No. a Diligencias concerning the pacification of the Nayaritos. 
10 ff. 
No. 35. Jd. concerning the revolt of the Nayaritos. 1724. 58 ff. 
Legajo 8. 1743-1769. Remarked “ 1583-1760”. 
Diligencias in consequence of a cédula of the king relating to 
defense against the English. 1740-1747. 
Administration of the media anata and the promulgation of a bull 
of the Santa Cruzada. 1740. | 
Correspondence concerning the beatification of Father Margil. 
. 1752. 
Legajo 4. 1716-1799. 
Report by the ayuntamiento concerning the retaining in Durango of 
the Reales Caxas of Nueva Viscaya. 1716. 
Expediente concerning the establishment of five Franciscan monas- 
teries in Nueva Viscaya. 1795. 30 ff. 
Legajo 5. 1805-1813. 
Testimomo of documents relating to the grave spiritual and tem- 
poral injuries suffered by the Interior Provinces of New Spain, 
and to the articles of instruction sent by the city of Durango to 
the Most Excellent Sefor Don Miguel de Lardizabal. 1810. 
(The report to the king by the Bishop of Durango, Tristan y Esmeriota, 
gives a good summary of the organization and the condition of ecclesias- 
tical administration in the Interior Provinces.) 
Legajo 6. 1815-1827. Valuable for the period of the revolution. . 
Legajo 10. 
No. 2. List of foreigners in the city. 1844. 
Legajo 11. 
Contains a small amount of correspondence relative to the war with 
the United States. 
ARCHIVO DE LA SECRETARIA DE GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE SECRETARIAT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE. ) 
When visited by the present writer, this archive was in a very disordered 
condition. The difficulties of examining it were increased by the fact that it 
had just been utilized for the serving of refreshments at a social function 
held in the Palacio de Gobierno. 
For the period since the Independence (1821) the archive contains com- 
paratively complete files of records of the executive department of govern- 
ment, such as are described more fully for Chihuahua, Coahuila, etc. 
For the colonial period there is a large but extremely miscellaneous collec- 
tion of documents, so unclassified, indeed, that no adequate notion of its 
nature or importance can be acquired till it has been systematized. It is 
evident, however, that the archive contains fragments of several archives. 
Papers relating to the Real Hacienda as early as 1584 were encountered. 
The following classes of early documents were noted: correspondence of the 
governors, the intendants, and the military commandants with the local 
authorities, the commandant-general, and the viceroy, reports of inspections 
of presidios, decrees, royal cédulas, and proclamations, trials (cawsas), crim- 
inal and civil, held before the governors, alcaldes, and juzgados de letras, 
