Rents

List of names entitled Sonora. At bottom of page is alcalde mayor de Tepic. (L. Deatherage, July 1987) payments to troops, sales taxes and fines for commerce and building construction, conflicts with Indians; prisoners taken, military strategies used, Indian attack on Padilla, education of captive Indian children. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Describes situation with Indians: murders of and by; religious education of; military strategies used to subdue, and control; agricultural labor of, and transporting to prisons. Tobacco, gunpowder, and land finances listed along with expenditures and troop payments, appointments made in civil offices of governor and justicia. Activities at missions described: crop production, establishment of new orders, rebuilding of destroyed mission, failure of priests to report profits and subsequent conflicts with royal officials, and distribution of mission supplies. Case of presidial captain of Laredo falsifying location of town. Travel conditions at Tetillas poor. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns delivery of salaries, supplies to squadrons in Nuevo Santander. Series of documents describing the transporting and care of 22 Indian prisoners from Santander to Mexico. Military orders given for soldiers to assist in transportation of prisoners. Clergy in Mexico petition for education of several prisoners. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Report from governor to virrey on conditions of Nuevo Santander. Mentions tobacco rent collection, relocation of murderers Albarez and Montelongo, requests funding for troops. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)