Fiscal Affairs

Notices of money sent to San Blas for constructions and salaries; list of salary payments; detailed lists of sailors and officers with salaries; request for increase in salaries, granted for those longer than six months in department of San Blas; repetitive money transfer documents (p. Coyle February 1990)

Notice to return money taken from real Caxa of Veracruz to build houses and roads in San Blas; list of debts owed to real Caja by individuals in San Blas; notice of payments and transfers of money and wages to and from San Blas; repetitive and superficial documentation expect in regards to specific money amounts owed and paid. (p. Coyle January 1990)

Lists of salary payments, debts and rebates between Mexico and San Blas for the last six months of 1780 (p. Coyle January 1990)

List of salary payments; decrees regarding other payments for establishment of missions, presidios, haciendas, and settlements; repetitive countersignatures; list of supplies sent to San Blas, destined for California; request for return of salary paid after job finished. (p. Coyle January 1990)

Testimony as to whether the sale of wool is covered under an exemption placed on the paying of taxes on fruit harvests of haciendas associated with the missions of California (p. Coyle January 1990)

Letter to Revilla Gigedo regarding facade of church in Monterrey started by previous governor of California (Fages). Letter ordering suspension of all work on facade. Letter from Velasquez of new design of the facade. Letter requesting clarification of orders since Romeu died. Informe of expenses incurred in construction of new facade of church in Monterrey, includes detailed description of goods and work performed (folios 467-478). Letters regarding payment of money for new facade. (T. Kahana, September 1989)

Letters concerning expenses of San Francisco's factory for years 1789-1794. Documents and letters related to deliveries made by presidios in California to ships and individuals. Commissioner of San Blas promises to pay immediately his debt and ask in the future to send him an invoice with the goods. Letters mentioning amount of money alloted to each presidio. Document containing detailed accounting of San Francisco's factory, presidio and church. Letters concerning expenses of presidios Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Francisco and Monterrey. Letter explaining extra expenses incurred in Monterrey due to fire in presidio and detailed description of repair work and daily life of Indians employed to do it (folio 335-337). (T. Kahana September 1989)

Letter from Borica to Revillagigedo describing his trip through missions in Alta California while taking possession of his post as governor, good situation of Indians, gentleness of treatment and easy work. Letter describing agricultural achievments in los Angeles and San Jose as well as the soap factory in Santa Barbara and the mills in San Luis and Santa Cruz, a better road from Santa Clara to Santa Cruz has been laid as well as one from San Luis to Purisima avoiding the area of Buchon. Letter concerning plans to build a new presidio in San Francisco, explanations of urgency to do so due to lack of water and bad strategic position of the old one. Letter from real tribunal summarizing San Francisco's history and supporting Boricas petition to move the factory and the mission to a new location. Recommendation to deal with more urgent problems like finding buyers for produce of the area, and staying in old factory in San Francisco for the time being. Letters from real consejo recommend building a convent of San Fernardo order, which will provide monetary gain, this is compared with the creation of new missions on Colorado. (T. Kahana, August 1989)

Documents concerning the secularization of mission hacienda de Cienega. Records of rents paid. Record of taxes paid on Cienega. Letters concerning taxes paid on new theater located on Calle vergana. Letters concerning sale of hacienda del Arroyo. Lists rents and dates paid. Letters concerning debts owed to the contaduria. 1829 mayordomo wages. Lastiri placed in charge of real estate administration. Letters of contest. (K. Mccaston, may 1990)

Typeset decree of April 16,1834 secularizing all missions in the republic. Missions were converted to parishes and were regulated by local governors. Decree allowed four months for the transition. Letters from Fondo de California discussing details of transition and church properties. Ff.#7 list of bookkeeping activities for Fondo Piadoso de California. Letter requesting permission to write a book entitled historia de la Antigua California. Clavejero, a Jesuit, wrote the original book. Letters concerning payments in and out of the contaduria of calif.. Ff.#21,22,24, itemized accounting documents. Contaduria salaries discussed. Lists of wages paid to workers for restoration of Casa #12. (K. Mccaston, may 1990)