Transportation (Prisoners)

Letters concerning illness of Cordero and request of dismisal. Letters concerning plans of deportation to Havana of Apache prisoners. Letters about Spanish- U.s. relations in Texas, includes order to evacuate all Spanish citizens from left bank of Savinas River, including marquez de Casa Calvo. Letters regarding military promotions and ammunition requisition. (T. Kahana, March 1989)

Documents concern the transporting of the prisoners Perales and Gonzalez Silvestre. Lopez Portillo pays cost of transportation. Other document suspends Lopez Portillo because of his over-zealousness in condemning the prisoners to death. Lopez Portillo defends his actions as necessary to deter further crimes. Asesor general cannot help his case but sends it to Mexico. In no document is the nature of the crimes of the prisoners given. (P. Lenz, September 1989)

Documents concern the transference of a group of Meco Indians from San Luis Potosi to Mexico under the commission of Pasqual de Burgoa. Request for a doctor to attend a gravely ill Indian. Payment of expenses incurred in transportation of Indians, in the salaries paid soldiers accompanying them, and of expenses in feeding the Indians during journey. Also given are a few baptisms along the way. Especially important are a group of lists concerning the Indians and the payment of the soldiers. Folios 171-173 contains an extensive list of the salaries paid soldiers and Cavos. folio 174 contains a list of expenses in transporting and feeding of the Indians. Folios 176-177 gives a list of Indian groups and the men and women who comprise the separate groups. (P. Lenz, September 1989)