460 Chihuahua, Parral 
MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES. 
The archive of the Ayuntamiento, housed in the Palacio Municipal, contains 
several hundred legajos of records for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 
of classes similar to those noted in the municipal archives of Parral and Santa 
Barbara (see p. 461). Some of the documents relate to the frontier districts 
of Nueva Viscaya and to New Mexico. In the same building is the archive 
of the Jefatura Politica, whose regular files begin with 1876. Besides these, 
however, it contains many old papers once in the archive of the Ayuntamiento. 
ARCHIVO DEL CONGRESO DEL ESTADO. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE STATE CONGRESS. ) 
This archive contains records of the state legislature from 1823 to date. 
There is an inventory of the archive which indicates in a general way the 
contents. The papers are arranged chronologically in legajos. The principal 
classes of documents are: minutes of sessions, acts of Congress (cuadernos 
de actas), secret correspondence, expedientes concerning infractions of the 
law, reports of committees, padrones, proposals of deputations, decrees and 
laws. 
ARCHIVO DE LA TESORERIA. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE TREASURY.) 
In this collection there are records of the state treasury from the Inde- 
pendence to date. In addition there are older papers reaching back to 1805. 
Of these the most important are the records of the Administracién General 
de Rentas of Chihuahua, whose jurisdiction included New Mexico. There 
are also records of the special administrations of various estanquillos (monop- 
olies). The collection should prove very important for the study of provin- 
cial administration of royal revenues. 
ARCHIVO DE LA COMANDANCIA GENERAL DE PROVINCIAS INTERNAS. 
(ARCHIVE OF THE COMMANDANCY-GENERAL OF THE INTERIOR PROVINCES. ) 
The chief disappointment resulting from the search in Chihuahua, and one 
of the greatest disappointments of the whole investigation, was the failure 
to find there the remains of the old archive of the Commandancy-General of 
the Interior Provinces. Reference to pp. 75, 76, and numerous similar ev- 
idences not contained in this volume, show that in the period between 1777 and 
1800 a great mass of materials for the early history of the frontier was sent 
thither from the Secretaria del Virreinato. The last definite trace of the 
archive found by the writer shows that in 1827 it was in the custody of the 
Comisario of Chihuahua, and presumably in the archive of the Comisaria 
General of the state.” Only a few scraps of the archive were found at 
Chihuahua, and a few others at Saltillo, and it seems that it has never been 
sent to the Archivo General y Publico de la Nacion. If it is still in a large 
measure intact it should be of the rarest value. 
PARRAL. 
ARCHIVE OF THE JEFATURA POLITICA AND OF THE AYUNTAMIENTO. 
These archives are kept together, and of the older papers there seems to be 
no separate classification, dividing the papers of the ayuntamiento from those 
of the Jefatura Politica. 
*See Bolton, in the American Historical Review, XIII. 798-790. 
