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Correspondencia (Correspondence). 
(The classes of correspondence are illustrated by legajo 1847, no. 135, 
which contains correspondence of the bishop with justices (jueces), 
ayuntamientos, governors, curacies, private individuals, and the central 
government. ) 
Circulares (Circulars) ; 
(Circulars by and to the bishop.) 
Expedientes concerning special matters. 
Expedientes de ordenes (Expedientes of orders). 
(Informaciones of the legitimacy, habits of life, etc., of candidates for 
orders.) 
Other classes of papers that occur frequently are: reports of admission 
of collegials, cuentas de fabrica (building accounts), petitions, 
relations of the merits and services of individual priests, borra- 
dores (blotters) of oficios, retirement (dimisios) of priests, con- 
secration of bishops, concourses, collation and renunciation of 
benefices. 
ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST. 
Report of the province of Coahuila, including notices of Texas, by Bishop 
Santa Cruz. 1676. Legajo 1. 
Documents relative to the erection of the bishopric. 1779 et seq. Legajo 1. 
Correspondence of the bishop with the governors of Texas relative to tithes, 
regalia, and other matters (notably that with Governor Cabello, 
legajos 11 and 138, 1784-1785). 
Id. with the parish priests of Texas. Ibid. 
General correspondence with the commandant-general of the Interior Proy- 
inces of the East, especially concerning Indians, tithes, and special 
ecclesiastical levies. 
Correspondence relative to the progress of the Mexican revolution. 1811- 
1821. 
[d. relative to the progress of the war with the United States. 1846-1847. 
(The third bishop of Linares, Don Primo Feliciano de Porras, bishop from 
1803 to 1815, in 1804 visited the whole of his diocese, going as far east as 
Natchitoches. The report of his visitation was not found, though it may 
be in the archive but out of order in the files.) 
ARCHIVO DEL CABILDO ECLESIASTICO. 
(Archive of the Ecclesiastical Chapter.) 
Legajos. 
The dates given for the legajos below are in most cases only approximate, 
having been determined by a rapid and inexhaustive examination. No attempt 
is made here to give more than the titles of the legajos, or, in other cases, very 
general indications of their contents. 
(Legajo) no. 1. “ Oficios de los Virreyes de varios afios, con algunas Cédu- 
las.” 1791-1810. 
No. 2. “ Expedientes sobre las 4 Canonjias de oposicién y sus edictos 
correspondientes.” 1804-1850. 
