Index 
Mendoza, Gov. Juan de, Sonora, death of, 102; 
letters of, 24 
Mendoza, Gov. Matheo Antonio de, Nueva Vis- 
caya, report by, 153 
Mendoza, Miguel, letters by, 212 
Mendrajon, Eduardo, papers respecting, 62 
Menezo, Pedro, papers respecting, 62 
Mercurio Volante, newspaper, 27, 203 
Mercury, vessel, 86 
Merelo, Fr. Lorenzo, request of, 161 
Mérida, tobacco factory of, 310 
Merino, Manuel, papers respecting, 62 
Merry, Mr., see Lewis and Clark 
Mescal, importation of, 84 
Mescalero Indians, 281; attack on, 131; cor- 
respondence concerning, 108; guard fur- 
nished, 131; hostilities, 344; imprisonment 
of, 116; peace with, 116; persecution of, 
100; remission of, 90; settlements, 334; 
treaties with, 107, 108; war with, 108 
Mescales, mission founded for, 423 
Mescalitan, Laguna y Ensefiada de, plan of, 151 
Mesilla, Americans at, 230; plan to capture, 290; 
treaty, 257; Valle de, ownership of, 229 
Mesquia, Fr. Pedro Pérez de, see Pérez de 
Mesquia 
Messages, presidential, 34, 36 
Meteor, ship, 183 
Mexia, see Mejia 
Mexicana, ship, 112, 115, 182 
Mexicano, ship, 44 
Mexicanos en el Exterior, seccién de, 244 
México (Asuntos Politicos), secciédn de, 244- 
252 
Mexico (city), Americans in, II, 212, 296; ar- 
chive of the ayuntamiento of, 214-215; 
ayuntamiento of, 346; archives, 5-370; 
cabildo of archbishopric of, 200, 214, 218; 
Cathedral, 5, 44, 216, 333; defense of, 212, 
207, 333; division of archbishopric of, 415; 
drainage of, 186; early accounts of, 23; 
earthquake in, 436; garrison of, 346; Hos- 
pital Real de Indios, 205; jurisdiction of 
judge of, 175; letters to Jesuit provincial 
at, 74; map of archbishopric of, 366; mili- 
tary operations about, 296; missionaries 
from, 81; newspapers, 51, 207; occupation 
of, 215; powder from, 154; prisoners in, 
papers concerning, 283, 284; war situation 
In, 333 ’ ; 
Mexico (country), adventurers in, 230; affairs 
of cities of, 110; agents, 223, 229, 230, 233, 
236, 245, 246, 249, 250, 252, 254, 258, 260, 
266, 369; aid solicited for, 230; American 
migration into, 223; American newspaper 
reporters in, 254; annexation of Guatemala 
to, 47; annexation proposed for, 291; 
Apaches for, 132; application for land by 
citizens of, 437; archives of, general in- 
formation concerning, I-3; army of, 220; 
bank and railroads for, 258; boundary af- 
fairs, 190, 223-224, 230, 261; British agents 
in, 289; British minister to, 245, 261, 208; 
cattle stealing in, 234; censuses of towns 
in, 217; circular to officials of, 247; citizens 
519 
expelled from, 344; civil war in, 231; 
claims against, 244; Clavigero’s Storia del 
Antico Messico, 20; clergy, 260; climatic 
conditions, 3; coalition against, 231; col- 
onization, 237, 238, 362; commissary-gen- 
eral of, 186; commissioners, 228, 290; com- 
missions, 267; complaints by, 225, 230, 
255, 261, 435; Congress, see Congress, Mex- 
ico; consuls, 227, 229, 232, 233, 240, 251, 
257, 259, 262, 265, 285, 288, 300, 303; Con- 
taduria Mayor of, 146; correspondence 
with officials of, 295; counterfeiting in, 245, 
246, 252, 262; currency of, 259; debates con- 
cerning frontier of, 252; depredations in, 
229, 230; diplomatic corps in, 260; dis- 
turbances in, 36; Documentos para la His- 
toria de, see Garcia Icazbalecta; documents 
concerning empire period of, 187; docu- 
ments concerning interior of, 157; docu- 
ments for history of, 211; donations from, 
281; drafts on treasury of, 466; ecclesi- 
astical affairs of, 202; emigration of fami- 
lies of, 190; enlistments for, 251, 259; ex- 
peditions against, 56, 65, 227, 232, 266, 300; 
expeditions organized in, 231, 280; extra- 
dition of citizens of, 259; extraordinary 
legation from, 245; flag of, 260; foreign 
agents in, 243; foreigners in, 241-242, 255; 
foreign relations of, 231; founding of relig- 
ious houses in, 32; French in, 57; French 
minister to, 229; government, 345; grant- 
ing of medals and honors by, 236; history 
of, 203, 212; hostility of U. S. toward, 47; 
independence of, 223, 224, 225, 244, 251, 206, 
298; industrial and agricultural enter- 
prises in, 335; Inquisition in, 204, 211; in- 
tervention in, 23I, 232; invasion by citizens 
of, 346, 347; invasion of, 213, 229, 243, 209, 
302; invitation to, 238; Jesuits of, 74; 
journey to, 337; Kingsborough’s Antiqui- 
ties of, 22; landed property in, 236; land 
grants, 253, 433; legation in U. S., see 
Washington ; legations in, 239; legations of, 
244, 246, 259, 265, 2607, 268; lottery, 262; 
mails, 253, 250, 264; maps, 246, 263, 339, 
364; measles in, 180; migration of Indians 
to, 237; mission to, 227; monasteries of, 
42; naturalization, 237, 254; negroes, 253; 
neutrality of, 231, 233, 254; notices con- 
cerning frontier of, 278; offer of citizen 
of, 80; papal legation of, 179; papers ex- 
tracted from archives of, 252, 261; papers 
relating to, 205; pardon for citizens of, 
346; passage of U. S. troops in, 231, 232; 
passports, 185, 254; pensioners, 254; per- 
mission to enter, 242; petitions for lands 
in, 225, 304; plan to annex territory of, 
252; plan to buy territory of, 251; policy 
of government of, 247; political affairs of, 
244-252; ports, 246, 260, 339; preparations 
to invade, 134; prisoners, 215, 261, 280, 290, 
297; privileges, 254; proceedings in, 156; 
pronouncements, 274; protectorate pro- 
posed over, 231; Rayon’s article concern- 
ing archives of, I1n.; reclamations by, 
