Gold

An extensive Series of documents and manifests concerning administration of royal treasuries of Chihuahua and Arispe with some documents concerning Guanajuato and Durango. Includes correspondence regarding justification and operation of funds and fiscal manifests for Chihuahua and Arispe for years 1795-1797 and 1801-1804. Examples of major expenses include presidio and other war costs, missionary salaries, treasury and other government salaries. Income through taxable items manifest for both Chihuahua and Arispe for 1795 (f.71); Razon de los Caudales for Arispe and nearby frontier pueblos for 1796 (f.134); Razon de los Caudales for royal treasury of Chihuahua for 1796 (f.135); manifest for treasury in Arispe for December 31, 1795 (f.136); manifest for royal treasury at Rosario for December 1795 (f.138); audit of Saltillo treasury for 1795 (f.156); manifest for royal treasury of Durango for 1795(f.140); Estado del Caudal for Arispe, October 22, 1796 (f.157-159); income/debit statement for royal treasury of Chihuahua for 2nd half of 1796 (f.173); monthly statement for January 1797 for royal treasury in Chihuahua (f.174); manifiesta del Caudal for July 1 to December 31,1796 for Arispe (f.175); monthly statement for June 1801 for royal treasury of Arispe (f.209); income and debts for royal treasury of Chihuahua for January - June 1801 (f.210); income and debts for royal treasury of Chihuahua for July-December 1801 (f.254); bi-annual statement for end of December 1801 for Arispe (f.255); bi-annual statement for end of June 1802 for Arispe (f.270); bi-annual statement for end of June 1802 for Chihuahua (f.272); list of deposits and depositors for Chihuahua and Arispe for 1802 (f.294-295); bi-annual statement for December 1802 for royal treasury of Chihuahua (f.320); monthly statement for December 1802 for Arispe (f.321); bi-annual statement for June 1803 for Chihuahua (f.335); bi-annual statement for June 1803 for Arispe (f.336); bi-annual statement information through F.384. (J. Carpenter, December 1986) (for June 1804 for Chihuahua F.349). Additional fiscal

Correspondence is on administrative and financial matters in department of San Blas. Several documents deal with appointments, health and salaries of personnel; others with cargos and itineraries of Paquebot San Carlos and Goleta Sonora on voyages to California ports, supplying provisions to discuss damage to Paquebot in storm. Ff. 407 continues discussion of status in construction of Paquebot and why better suited to be fragata rather than Paquebot. Ff. 408-410, 414-419, 430-432, 434 deal with personnel problems of craftsmen on ship construction, delays due to illnesses. Ff. 411-413 on publication of new royal decrees lowering percentage of rights to gold, after royal fifth subtracted. Ff. 423-429 are list of workers contracted in Veracruz with salary information and deductions on salaries for officials for pensions to wives. (J. M. Johnson, October 1988)

303-312: Informe from Bucareli to director of temporalidades asking that Arroyo Zarco administrator be replaced by Aysa due to poor administration. Informe from Garay to Mangino regarding end of the ranch's seizure. Aissa asks for funds for repairs. 313-336: Montoya Garay provides inventory list to Ayssa which includes extensive and descriptive list of chapel and vestry items, household furnishings, books, kitchen goods, laborer tools, bed sheeting, store items, personal debts, farmhand salaraies, livestock. 342: Virrey grants permission that Mangino come to capital. 345-352: Escala Guller grants permission to Thomas Escala to buy and sell his properties. 353-354: Montoya aska virrey if taking horses from his own hacienda is permissible. 355-358: Mangino infoms virrey of financial losses to Arroyo Zarco caused by troops and sailors that are housed at the hacienda. (J. Hiller, October 1988)

Notice of derechos de extranjeria for apparently illegal shipment of cloth coming from Panama. Authorities withhold shipment until decision is made. Notice of commercial items such, such as cacao and cotton, arriving from Acapulco. (M. Marroquin, July 1988)

Series of documents on transportation of gold, silver and commercial items such as soap and sugar; lease of private house to use as military Hospital; prosecution of soldier for killing another one; transferral of government officials; request for travel expenses for government officials; expenditures for ship repair.

Asks to be informed about the situation concerning Belena, who deposited certain quantities of gold and silver in Alamos. These metals belonged to the extinguished order of Jesuits in Sinaloa (Villa). (M. Bowman) (1979)

His goods had been embargoed because he was accused of hiding some of the gold and silver pieces from the expelled Jesuits. (M. Bowman) (1979)

Letters to and from Eusebio Bentura Belena concerning expulsion of Jesuits and their replacement by Franciscans. Documents also concern the property of the Jesuit missionaries, and includes lists of gold and silver and livestock owned. Also, includes a ledger concerning shipment of Jesuit gold and silver to Mexico City. (R. Graham) (1979)

Philip III orders Don Pedro de Acuna, governor and captain general of the Philippines, to assist Sebastian Viscaino who has been ordered to settle the harbor of Monterey. The importance of this document lies in its account by Philip III of the expedition on which Sebastian Viscaino, an experienced navigator, discovered Monterey and explored the coast in between on order of Don Luis de Velasco, Former viceroy of New Spain - description of native inhabitants of the coast and their mention of gold. (C. Briggs) (1975)