418 Monterrey 
RECORDS IN THE CLAVERIA. 
Adjacent to the library of the dean is a room called the Claveria containing 
numerous legajos of old records of the Haceduria de Diezmos of the bishopric 
of Monterrey, and a few Franciscan papers. 
DocUMENTS RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF TITHES. 
The chief classes of these documents are accounts of tithes (cuentas de 
diezmos) of the various jurisdictions of the bishopric from 1779 to about 
1835 ; accounts of the disbursements of the funds ; books of mesadas (monthly 
payments) of the capitulars; blotters of correspondence of the Haceduria 
from the later eighteenth century to 1845 or later ; collections of circulars and 
orders of the junta de diezmos to the administrators of tithes ; miscellaneous 
expedientes. 
Cuentas de diezmos (Accounts of tithes). Of this class of documents 
the following items were noted (there may be others of similar 
nature) : 
Coahuila y Texas. 1779-1783. 
(It is interesting to note that the administrator of tithes during this period 
was a woman, Dofia Asencia Garcia de Rivera.) 
Coahuila y Rio Grande. 1784-1789. 
Provincia de Texas. 1792, 1793-4, 1794-5, 1795-6, 1796-7, 1797-8, 
1798-9, 1799-1800. 
Colonia del Nuevo Santander. 1783-1792. 
Villas del Norte. 1783-1799. 
Rio Grande y Villa de San Fernando. 1794-1800. Six books. 
“ Varios expedientes incluso el testimonio de los repartimientos hechos en 
Mexico y la instrucion de esta Contaduria.” 
No. 1. Concerning the tithes of the province of Nuevo Reino de 
Deonsrsl 77a: 
No. 4. Concerning the tithes of the new bishopric of Nuevo Reino 
de Leon. 17709. 
No. 9. Concerning the prohibition of the exportation and killing of 
breeding animals. 1782. 
No. 11. Argument made by the Doctoral of the Holy Church of 
Valladolid to the end that its cabildo should not be despoiled of 
the “ novenos beneficiales”’. Sept. 28,1779. 33 ff. 
No. 12. Certification by the curate of Béxar concerning the products 
of the tithes. 1780. 
No. 15. Concerning the payment of tithes of the bishopric of 
Nuevo Reino de Leon. 1792. 
No. 17. Concerning the payment of “ novenos beneficiales ” to the 
curates of Laredo. 1795. 
Miscellaneous correspondence concerning tithes. The period covered is 
in general from 1779 to 1845. 
“ Billetes de Contaduria y Libramientos de Haceduria. Reditos y Devo- 
luciones.” One legajo. Various years. 
No. 4. Nuevo Santander. 1782-1792. 
No. 5. Coahuila. 1790-1804. 
No. 7. Texas. 1791-1800. 
(Others for Camargo, Reynosa, Rio Grande, etc.) 
