Ecclesiastical Archives 443 
Books of government (libros de gobierno) of the Chapel of the Third 
Order of Penitence of San Francisco. Later eighteenth century. 
(Records of elections, chapters, professions, etc.) 
Id. of the Convento de San Francisco. Eighteenth and nineteenth cen- 
turies. 
Mass books (libros de misas) of the Convento de San José del Saltillo. 
1793-1850. 
Collections of the tomallillos of the Chapel of the Third Order of San 
Francisco. 
ARCHIVO PARROQUIAL DE GUERRERO. 
These are three small bundles of papers recently taken to Saltillo from the 
parochial church of Guerrero, Coahuila, near the old settlement of the mis- 
sions of San Juan Bautista and San Bernardo, on the Rio Grande. They con- 
sist primarily of records of the chaplaincy of the Presidio of Rio Grande, or 
San Juan Bautista, of the curacy of San Juan Bautista, and of the curacy of 
Guerrero. Among the papers were noted: 
Correspondence directed by the commandant-general and the provincial 
governors to the commander of the presidio. Later eighteenth 
and early nineteenth centuries. 
(Among them is a letter from John Davis Bradburn, Galveston, 1820.) 
Circulars sent en cordillera from the Bishop and the Cabildo Eclesiastico 
of Nuevo Leon to the various pastorates and missions of the 
diocese. The extreme dates noted were 1780-1804. 
(The cordillera for circulars in 1798 was as follows: Monterrey, San 
Estévan de Tlascala, Pesqueria Grande, Salinas, Boca de Leones, Punta 
de Lampazos, Candela, Monclova, Nadadores, Santa Rosa, San Fer- 
nando, Peyotes, Vizarrén, San Bernardo, San Juan Bautista, Rio Grande, 
Béxar. The curate of Béxar was instructed to send a copy to Nacog- 
doches, the original continuing to San José, San Francisco de la Espada, 
San Juan Capistrano, La. Purisima Concepcion, N. S. del Rosario, Es- 
piritu Santo de Zifiga, N. S. del Refugio, Laredo, Revilla, Mier, 
Camargo, Reynosa, Cerralvo, and the Secretaria.) 
Records, similar to the above, of the parochial church of Guerrero. 1831- 
1850. 
MONCLOVA. 
ARCHIVO MUNICIPAL DE MONCLOVA. 
(MUNICIPAL ARCHIVE OF MONCLOVA.) 
In the municipal archive, which is separate from the offices of the adminis- 
tration, the general records of the ayuntamiento from the earliest times are 
stored, but badly cared for. At the time when this investigation was made 
the room in which they were kept was just recovering from a flooding which 
had damaged some of the precious documents and menaced the rest. The 
papers are tied in legajos, the twenty embracing the period from 1675 to 1843 
being arranged in carpetas and listed in the ‘‘ Indice del Archivo Municipal 
de esta ciudad correspondiente a los afios de 1675 a 1843”. The principal 
classes of documents before 1800, as shown by the “ Indice ”, are: records of 
the founding of Monclova and neighboring settlements, grants and transfers 
of land, water, and mineral rights, fiscal records (cuentas de caja and cuen- 
tas de propios y arbitrios), and miscellaneous expedientes. After 1800 the 
following additional classes are common: royal cédulas and orders, libros 
