Municipal Administration

(thoric cederstrom) (1980)

(D. Coates) (1980)

Members of the municipal council of Santa Fee and of the company of soldiers of the same town, accuse Fransisco Cuerbo y Valdes of having conducted an investigation of the municipal accounts and attempting, falsely, to place the said soldiers and council members under suspicion of some wrongdoing. The complaint goes to the governor and to the viceroy. The governor, while the dispute is still pending in the hands of the viceroy, is attempting to get the parties to negotiate a settlement. (Lloyd Kendall) (1980)

Ordinances concerning- discharging of firearms, gambling, regulation of livestock sales, vagrancy, loitering, drunkenness, no fandangos in the suburbs or other indecent houses, no frivolity during holy observances, and a leash law. (R. Perez) (1977)

Pharamacist ferreira is searched for and ordered back to Spain to be reunited with his Mujer; he was originally sent to Arispe by Revilla-Gigedo to the military Hospital, then he moved to Mexico City to run a civilian pharmacy. The viceroy begins to track him down in 1800 and finally catches up to him in 1803 in Mexico City. He and his friends are required to swear they will comply with the order; ferreira is to liquidate his house in Arispe and the pharmacy. After several postponements he finally returns to Spain on August 8, 1803. Ff#209 gives a physical description of ferreira. One can assume that his Mujer was of the aristocracy as she had the viceroy declare his return an order. (E. Wilson, oct, 1989)

Transcribed documents concerning establishment of Revilla. List of 14 families (names, ages of children, ethnicity, weapons and livestock owned) to settle first, followed by list of 26 families to follow. Discussion of privileges, access to water, land, firewood equal to that held earlier. Instructions for assignment of land. Suggests placing Indians (now settled where Revilla will be) in separate mission, giving them land one league from Villa, seed, access to communal firewood supply, spiritual guidance. Last folio is map of Revilla, with locations, dimensions of church, capitan's house, rivers, land temporarily granted Indians. (A. Dean, may 1990)

Concerns letter from archbishop of Mexico to virrey about promotion of padre Lino as representative in Nuevo Santander; informe to virrey from gobernador of Nuevo Santander about establishment of pueblos and how it took take place; virrey requests an informe from Obispo of Guadalaxara on the new colony Santander. (D. Bautista, November 1989)

Documents concerning mismanagement of temporal and spiritual resources leveled by bishop of Guadalajara and others against Ramon, interim governor of Coahuila, and vaga, padre comisario. Also, real cedula ordering that viceroy remedy problems in aforementioned province. (J. H. Ochs, December 1987)

Rodriguez Gallardo's deposition and remarks to informe written by visitor of Jesuit missions in Sonora. Issues discussed include consolidation of dispersed pueblos de indios; military escort for religious entradas into frontier areas; definition of indios vagantes; reasons for Pueblo desertion. Cites various articles from recopilacion de Leyes de las indias concerning reduction of Indians to mission life. author suggests that 2,000 pesos be sent to governor of Sinaloa to combat Apaches and that Barrancas of Sierra Madre be cleared of small Tarahumaran rancherias, and Indians gathered to be settled in larger pueblos. Also discussed are issues of election of Indian civic officials, regional officials to oversee Indian communities, Indian labor at missions, and punishment of mission Indians. Included is definition of siembras de comunidad versus siembras de Iglesia; number of Indians needed for a Pueblo to be legally recognized. Also, suggestions concerning land tenancy, education and repartimiento system in Sonora. (J. H. Ochs, November 1987)

Governor Diaz de Hortega threatens 500 peso fine if Ayuntamiento continues to refuse election results; summary of laws concerning election of Alcaldes; cedula requires installation of military officials with back pay; some unrelated documents concerning military appointments; Hortega certifies election in Chihuahua; very repetitive, many copies. (p. Coyle, December 1989)