408 Durango 
probate records, residencias of various officials, autos of measurement of 
lands, expedientes formed in the Real Contaduria and in the Administracion 
de Real Hacienda, accounts of propios y arbitrios, fondos de caminos, admin- 
istration of the powder monopoly, papers from the Contaduria de Diezmos of 
the Archbishopric of Nueva Viscaya. 
No document having direct bearing on the United States was encountered 
in the cursory examination which was made. 
ARCHIVO DE LA JEFATURA DE HACIENDA. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE JEFATURA DE HACIENDA. ) 
Located in the Jefatura de Hacienda. A large part of the political and 
military records of the province and state belonging properly in the Archivo 
de Gobierno are in the archive of the Federal Jefatura de Hacienda, having 
been carried there, it is said, during the French Intervention. Here also are 
records of the intendancy. This archive, indeed, for our purposes, is by far 
the most important repository of secular records of Durango, and it should 
yield to the investigator much information concerning the history and ad- 
ministration of the north country. The documents are all in legajos, which 
bear membretes, but these are of very little aid to the student because of the 
extremely miscellaneous composition of the bundles. The collection contains 
several hundred large bundles, filling a good-sized room, and so promiscuous 
in their arrangement that no adequate notion of even the general nature of the 
contents can be conveyed here. A study of this archive must some day be 
made a special investigation. 
ARCHIVO DE LA JEFATURA POLITICA. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE JEFATURA POLITICA. ) 
This archive contains a few papers, as correspondence with the governors 
and ayuntamientos and police records, from 1828 to 1848. After 1848 the 
files are comparatively full. Nothing of direct bearing on the United States 
was noted. 
THE CATHEDRAL. 
ARCHIVO DE LA HACEDURIA DE DIEZMOS DEL ARZOBISPADO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE HACEDURIA OF TITHES OF THE ARCHBISHOPRIC. ) 
This archive is located in the Cathedral. The collection, which is extensive, 
is very valuable for the study of the administration of church revenues of the 
territory included within the diocese of Durango, which, as has been said, in 
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries included New Mexico, Coahuila, and 
Chihuahua. The papers are arranged chronologically. The following bundles, 
chosen from different chronological periods, illustrate the kinds of materials 
in the archive: 
‘“Quentas de lo recivido y despendido de Caldos; assi de Parras, como 
de el Paso del Rio del Norte, 1739.” 
Records of the Diezmatorio of Chihuahua. Administrator, Br. Rivera. 
1758-1764. 
(The file contains reports of the administrator of tithes of Chihuahua to 
the Haceduria of the Holy Church of Durango, accounts, etc. There 
should be similar reports for New Mexico.) 
Representations to Congress regarding tithes and exemptions therefrom. 
Various dates. 
