504 
274; map made by, 365; representation by, 
2 
F rede inne Delano, citizenship requested by, 
176; petition of, 363 
Flagstones, manufacture of, 80 
Fleet, pay orders for, 78; Royal, see Armada; 
surgeons of, 78 
Flores, Francisco, California, trial of, 177 
Flores, Francisco, department of Béxar, resig- 
nation of, 433 
Flores, José Maria, application by, 439 
Flores, Manuel Antonio, viceroy, 14; adminis- 
tration of, 100; authority of, 76; corres- 
pondence, 40; orders of, 116, 211; papers 
sent by, 20; report by, 100 
Flores, Miguel, contraband seized from, 430 
Flores, Capt. Nicolas, application by, 439; cor- 
respondence, 295, 296; declaration of, 359 
Flores, Thomas, investigation before, 459 
Flores, Vital, application by, 439 
Flores de Valdez, Nicolas, grant to, 444; re- 
moval of, 123 
Florida, affairs of, 65, 66, 182; aid to, 58, 181; 
Americans in, 46; Cardenas’s Ensayo 
Cronolégico de la, 49, 236; correspondence 
concerning, 46; correspondence with offi- 
cials of, 15, 59; English in, 58; expedition 
against, 47; explorations in, 39; history of, 
236; Inquisition in, 35, 51, 188; orders con- 
cerning, 204; plan to invade, 125; recon- 
quest of, 182, 307; references to, 181; regu- 
lations for, 183; revolution in, 65; settlers, 
320; ship to sail from, 44; supplies for, 58, 
182; U. S. in, 65; vessels for, 307; see also 
Florida, West 
Florida, San Agustin de la, see San Agustin 
de la Florida 
Florida, Santa Helena de la, see Santa Helena 
de la Florida 
Florida, West, affairs of, 183; correspondence 
concerning, 66; exploration of coast of, 30; 
revolution in, 67; see also Florida 
Flotas, records of, 19; see also Armada, Royal 
Fly, ship, 183 
Flying Company, see Compafiia Volante 
Fomento, Colonizacién, e Industria, Secretaria 
de, 318; archives, 5, 187; Archivo General 
of, see Archivo General; correspondence, 
258, 262; general information concerning, 
349; maps, 263, 364-366; papers concerning, 
325; proceedings, 354 
Fomento, seccién de, 187 
Fomento (1821-1824), Invasion (1847), sec- 
cion de, 325 
Fondo Piadoso, see Pious Fund 
Fonseca y Urrutia, Historia General de Real 
Hacienda, 184, 188; reports of, 188 
Font, Fr. Pedro, 386; diary of, 26; expeditions 
of, 386, 393 
Fontbona, signature of, 388 
Fora, Capt. José M., case of, 95 
Fora, Nicolas de la, see La Fora 
Forbes, letter to, 205 
Forces, see Soldiers 
Index 
Foreigners (Estranjeros), censuses of, 436; 
civil status of, 241; correspondence rela- 
tive to, 454; enlistment of, 325; extradi- 
tion of, 430; industrial concessions to, 335; 
naturalization of, 437; orders concerning, 
457; papers concerning, 59, 241-242; pass- 
ports of, 436, 457; property of, 255; reports 
of, 441; restriction of, 457; trial of, 435 
Foreign Relations, Secretariat of, archives, 5, 
8, 9, 327, 328; arrangement of archive of, 
222-223; chancellery department, 222; cir- 
culars from, 246-247, 248, 249, 356; com- 
mercial department, 222; communications 
of, 432, 433, 437, 440; communication to, 
253; correspondence, 146, 157, 158, 173, 228, 
230, 231, 232, 246, 247, 248, 250, 254, 255, 258, 
260, 261, 268, 270, 276, 288, 290, 291, 295, 322, 
325, 337; 339, 352, 353, 356, 358, 361, 363, 438, 
454, 455, 450, 457; decrees, 323; historical 
sketch, 221; papers listed, 190, 223-268; 
papers transmitted from, 290; political de- 
partment, 221; present functions, 221-222; 
proposal by, 359; records from, 190; report 
by, 359; reports to, 252, 314, 354; supervis- 
ion of, 6 
Formoso, Fr. Juan, petition of, 73 
Forsyth, John, correspondence, 226, 230, 231 
Forsyth, John (son), minister to Mexico, treaty 
transmitted by, 257 
Fort Bliss, proposal by commander of, 231 
Fort Brown, memorial exercises at, 252; U. S. 
troops at, 299 
Fort Carlos Bent, papers concerning, 282 
Fort Clark, memorial exercises at, 252 
Fortier, Honorate, itinerary, 39, 235 
Fortificaciones, department of, papers, 9 
Fort Jessup, U. S. troops at, 260 
Fort Smith, expedition from, 227 
‘ Forty-niners ”, 237 
Forward, steamer, 233 
Foster, John W., letter from, 252 
| Foulam, James G., prisoner, 284 
Foulat, David B., prisoner, 284 
Fox, ship, 183 
Fracones, Col., orders of, 300 
Fragoso, Francisco Xavier, diary by, 35, 39 
France, King of, letters from, 220 
France, aid solicited of, 229; arrest of citizens 
of, 277; attacks by, 47, 55; blockaders of, 
227; boundary dispute with, 13; colonists, 
320, 354, 361, 429; commerce with, 121; 
contraband trade with, 50; conduct of, 47; 
corsair of, 182; designs of, 50; expeditions 
in search of people of, 40, 51; expeditions 
of, 47, 300; fleets, 32, 307; forces, 307; 
imprisonment and expulsion of people of, 
59; Indians allied with, 45, 93; in Mexico, 
57; intervention of, 227, 232, 233; in Texas, 
55; invasion by, 389; Mexican agents in, 
223; Mexican legation in, 268; military 
operations against, 424; ministers of, 227, 
229; operations of, 56, 234; prisoners of, 
301; proclamations, 47; purchase of arma- 
ment in, 249; trade disputes with Spain, 59; 
traders, 93, 429; treaties with, 86, 256; ves- 
