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Scope and Contents From the Series: Some interesting data on - donations to California missions. Conflicts, jurisdiction battles, scandals, religious orders, missionaries, problem individuals, excesses, letters, reports on various missions, Some letters in Latin or Italian. Reports on number of baptisms, regulations, administration, funds for misisons, appointments of mission officials, custodios, bishops, accounts of lives, death of individual missionaries. Indian rebellion in Nueva Vizcaya. Jesuit mines in Guanajuato. Mission...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Ordenanzas (ordinances): includes regulations and orders issued to various people in New Spain by the king, the Council of the Indies, and viceroys to ensure that they were known and authorized copies and where they would take effect. The regulations and the record books include information about officials, land, encomiendas, Indian labor, Indian rights, cattle, branding, trade, taxes, and ordinances for different trades and positions, obrajes, regulations of Negros and mestizos, selling in the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This ramo deals with various issues concerning the Northern provinces, known as Provincias Internas. In 1776 Carlos III authorized a large semiautonomous unit to be carved from the viceroyalty of New Spain. The proposal had been proposed by José de Gálvez during his 1765-71 inspection of the viceroyalty. This new unit included the provinces of New Mexico, Texas, Coahuila, Nueva Vizcaya, Nuevo Reino de León, Nuevo Santander, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Alta and Baja Californias. The reasons...