Advice on unnamed problem; plan for visit soon; communication via Mayen.

Invitation to patriotic ceremony in Teatro Iturbide; Riva Palacio called President of the Ayuntamiento.

Plan to intern suspicious travellers from Havana to Yucatán; Mejía; tío Jesuita; use of word bendito.

Request for help in obtaining discharge from the Tiradores de México; past employment on Hacienda de la Asunción; poverty of his family.

Letter to Carlitos entrusted to Comandante Mariano Muñiz but not delivered; request for letter to be forwarded to Vicente.

Acceptance of appointment by Martínez de la Concha as Secretario de Gobernación.

Bill for medical services to Vicente in Zitácuaro partly paid by Vicente; request for support in obtaining rest of the account from the State Government in Toluca; recommendation for Contrera, ex-Governor of Toluca; collection left with Cañedo.

Request for action on petition to the Comisión de Hacienda; request for permit to examine files of Diario oficial for 1863 stored in the Archivo del Ayuntamiento.

Request for repayment to Pedro Otero for damages suffered by his mesón during Intervention period; bill for use of the building by the [Republican?] government while in the city; Mesón de San Dimas; account sent to Ministerio de Guerra.

Instructions to Olaguíbel; state law allowing deputies to recommend candidates for Jefe político; abuse of law by deputies; effort of Velázquez for appointment of Lic. Portilla to replace Flores in Texcoco; Chalco; improvement of national capital.

Bill for $43 for purchase in Paris of 400 stearin candles for experiments in gas lighting; authorization by Junta de Hacienda; delivery on French ship; delivery to Sáyago; payment from Tesorería Municipal.

Appointment by the Ayuntamiento to recover possession of land within the city; approval of Supremo Gobierno and Lerdo; approval of Ministerio de Gobernación; authorization awaited.

Preparation of reply to critical and insulting article in El Monitor republicano No. 5157.

Request for employment; service as Contador mayor de Hacienda; resignation refused by González Echeverría and accepted by Doblado; experiences in Puebla during siege by French; robbery by soldiers of Márquez; retreat with government to San Luis; return; life in capital during Empire; enlistment with General Díaz at Tacubaya; service in the Jefetura de hacienda; refusal to hold office under Ministro Martín del Castillo; $20,000 back pay not received; service in aduanas del pacífico.

Ayuntamiento reported up-to-date in salaries except for Sunday 5; budget for Colegio de San Antonio approved December 31 by Cabildo.

Delivery of copies of the Memoria Municipal for deposit in archives and distribution to members of Ayuntamiento; distribution to Congress, Ministers, and officers.

Theatre boxes requested by Doña Margarita for Colonel Santamaría, Aide to the President, from allotment to the Ayuntamiento; Iturbide Theatre.

Request for help in finding position; service as captain in Mayoría de órdenes, Primera Brigada, División del Estado de México under Vicente Riva Palacio; certificate of service; possible employment with Administración de coches at Colegio de Niñas, Santo Domingo; Administración de las Plazas de San Juan, Santa Catalina, and Jesús; positions held by men who served the Empire.

Recommendation for Antonio López; work in Secretaría del Congreso and Tesorería del Ayuntamiento; Escribiente in the Junta Municipal; request for back pay; job as Archivero for the Tesorería suggested.

Recomendation for Mariano Perdigón, applicant for position in Ayuntamiento.

Receipt of statement to be published in the Diario oficial; publication of Memoria delayed by priority of official documents.

Uprising of terrorieros in favor of Huexoculco; prefect's report by telegraph to Gobierno General; Prefecto de Texcoco; support given rebels by people of Cuatepeque; bands collected by Julio López at San Martinito and Guadalupe Mecalco at San Francisco Acuahutla; danger of repeating Yucatán experience; weakness of local government.

Suspension of agreement with Ayuntamiento for measures to prevent floods in the city; request for arrangements to continue the work.

Introduction to Colonel Vicente Villada; request for support of petition to the President; delays blamed on Lerdo; services during Empire.

Reminder of his plea to Dr. Arrillaga to ask Lares to influence Santa Anna against exile of Riva Palacio; request for meeting on important business; No. 62, Plaza de los Ángeles.

Comonfort's funeral expenses to be paid by government; advice of Álvarez; permission of Miguel Álvarez de la Cadena.

Thanks for having street light put up at Santo Domingo and at the Capilla del Señor de la Expiración; decrease in crime anticipated; illness of Riva Palacio.

Change in scheduled meeting; message sent by Barajas; Pérez Palacios.

Meeting of creditors Noriega, Colocía, Valle, Luna, Antonio Tirada, Manuel Riva Palacio, Arechabala, and letters from Zamora and Parres; proposal for gradual liquidation of debt; counterproposal unacceptable; plan to give up business and live in Texcoco in poverty; request for advice. Includes signed copy of proposal, February 13, 1868, describing steps in bankrupty; bad business blamed on political conditions.

Answer delivered by Colín for Manuel; his good faith questioned by Colín; proposed union of families in marriage.

Request for funds for cleaning the city before beginning of rains; Paseo de la Viga; payments from budget.

Telegram from Ayotla on uprising at San Martinito; attack by soldiers; uprising blamed on effort to obtain more land; capture of native of Tlapacoya[n], previously in Resguardo de Córdoba; need for regular troops.

Receipt of request for garrison [in Chalco].

Peace broken by threat of Julio López to fight if the troops do not retire to Mexico; alarming proclamations issued by rebels, offering land to those who aid them; government troops called viles tiranos supporting the hacendados; passive resistance offered by local servants, showing effect of proclamations; need for vigorous action; band at Acuahutla reported by Administrador de Zoquiapan in support of the San Martinito movement.

Meeting of Cabildo; need for support in Tepic.

Changes in Ayuntamiento rules on rent of San Andrés estate recommended by Francisco de P. Cendejas; support of the Monte Pío; improvements on rented land to be reimbursed to the Ayuntamiento.

Transmittal of letter from Lerdo de Tejada.

Pronunciamiento de Acuahutla; growth in number of rebels; supplies delivered secretly; appearance of band in Chimalhuacán; cavalry troop in Zoquiapan; band reported in Santa María, near González.

Band reported in Monte de González; departure of troops of Gobierno Federal for the capital; rebellion reported to be directed by Genral Negrete; appeal to the Indians; danger of expropriation of the haciendas used as cover for political aims; villages not to be trusted; absence of vandalism.

Government order to surrender all documents on will of Sra. Castañiza; distribution of capital in Minería and in Fondo de Peajes; delay in payments; government agents referred to Riva Palacio as legal representative; property maintained to be outside the Laws of the Reforma.

Telegraph instructions not to go to Texcoco and the haciendas; rebels reported in Chalco area; cry of “Mueran los hacendados”; departure of Flores for Chiautla; danger of spread of the revolt.

Weakness of Jefe político in Chalco blamed on influence of Velázquez for his appointment; Portilla; Cristóbal Reyes suggested as replacement; support of Olívarri and Rovalo; appeal to President for armed force; Reguera.

Recommendation of Colonel Reguera received too late; appointment of Cristóbal Reyes.

New request taken under consideration; prudence enjoined on hacendados; Forey quoted.

Danger of ruin if the government goes through with proposed treatment of the city in revenge for actions during the Empire; request for influence to urge gentler treatment.

Increase in strength of rebels (called terrones); circular sent to district authorities by Julio López; plan to send leading persons to the President with a message; influence on Indians; short fight between rebels and Prefecto de Texcoco on way to San Francisco Acuahutla; death of Cisneros of Tlapacoya; prisoners.

Thanks for pains taken in burial of their father General Ignacio Comonfort.

Lament over political conditions in the city; objection to foreign domination; criticism of Zenea; compulsion used in elections; offices filled with imperialistas; repairs to the Cuartel; school funds cut off; opposition of Cervantes; effort to unseat Lic. Sánchez Verín, Ministro de la Federación; imprisonment without trial; acts committed against the magistratura; disregard of laws and Constitution; legal profession continued.

Disposal of horses given by Manuel Terreros; Ignacio Palomo; departure of Labastida with the French; need for employment; request for lodging at 19 de Cadena.

Meeting between Cuéllar and Julio López; concentration of rebels at Tlalmanalco; dispersal on approach of Cuéllar; López at San Martinito; Buenavista; good conduct of rebels; Velázquez.

Departure for San Luis Potosí on leave; need for a Consejo facultativo of civil engineers to help with public works program; consistent policy needed; paving of Puente de San Francisco; Carranza of Puebla; Jacot in Hotel de Compagnon, agent of Carranza; paving costs; atarjea de Corpus Christi; Zanja de la Alameda; cleaning of Calle del Refugio, Calle del Espíritu Santo, Calle del Ángel; Calle del Relox in need of repair; Adorno's plan for drainage system; labor supply; Comisión del Hospicio; army uniforms; schools to be supplied with workshop, press, and lithographic supplies from Europe; development of photographic work; maternity institutions in School of Medicine.

Improvement promised in problem discussed earlier; Ministro de Hacienda not informed.

Agreement between the Ministerio de la Guerra, Reyes, and Julio López for rebels to surrender arms and return to private pursuits without punishment.

Mission of Luciano for the Ayuntamiento to ask for indemnity for poor, hospitals, and public needs; Lic. Vázquez; Lupe; Josefina; José; Vicente.

Watermark: TH Saunders 1864.

Decree of Legislature of Jalisco on national property; tax on fábricas de hilado and manufactures from other states; increased tax in Tepic; complication of manufactures for use of Gobierno General; appeal from death sentence sent to Tribunal de Guadalajara; comparison with Madrid bullfight; extract from letter of April 4; popularity of Mariano Riva Palacio; effort to make San Blas a puerto de depósito; its advantages over other Pacific ports.

Request for decision of the Junta de Hacienda on gas lighting; need to set up lights during dry season; posts ready.

Watermark as in No. 6979 but with letters REPÚBLICA MEXICANA.

End of Julio López rebellion; surrender of arms; request for retention of the Regimiento de Parras; General Cuéllar; Puebla road guarded.

Mission of Prefecto Lic. Norberto Arcante to Mexico for Ayuntamiento.

Delivery of letter by Alcérreca; friendship for Comonfort.

Fernando Sort; payment of state expenses with surplus in treasury; roads guarded.

Invitation to Junta general de accionistas; Calle del Espíritu Santo No. 2.

Complaint against Jefe político; mistreatment of prisoners; request for intercession with Governor for replacement by Francisco Pacheco; earlier appointment as Jefe político in Jonacatepec.

Transmittal of document.

Transmittal of letter from Gómez Pérez in Toluca.

Rent of house with help of Vicente; request for help in purchasing business.

Request for return of image of La Purísima to the Capilla de la Universidad from storage in a cellar of the Casa de Moneda.

Burial place for Comonfort in Panteón de San Fernando provided by Riva Palacio and Lerdo; need for remodeling the building.

Call to Junta in Otumba; Luis named as substitute; permission of Quintana required.

Transmittal of anonymous note announcing approach of patriotas to Tulancingo; concentration at Pachuca; Tepozán; trip to capital postponed; request for permit to send horses to Manuel for safety; Ramon's horses to go to Alfaro; Cadena; Carlos in Lanzarote; Temoaya.

Watermark as in No. 7859.

Danger of new uprising not related to Julio López; villages peaceful; Negrete's revolution in Tulancingo; garrison refused by governor; advice of Ulíbarri.

Lands in Temamatla, belonging to Cofradía del Santísimo, reported by Pepe Higuera to Oficina de Bienes Nacionalizados; earlier report by Lic. Villavicencio claimed by Ministerio de Hacienda; request for sale; intestate death of Pepe, leaving lawyer in charge; Pepe favored through help of Riva Palacio.

Offer to sell picture of General Zaragoza for $200; sample photograph sent; advice of [Vicente] and Juan Abadiano; interest of Ayuntamiento. Riva Palacio is addressed as Presidente del Ayuntamiento de México.

Kind treatment by family of Maximilian; pension of 2400 florins from mother of Emperor and Empress Mariana; concern for future of children; Brussels preferred for low cost of living and difficulty of German Language; letters in care of Díaz; M. de la Torre.

Illness of Rovalo; favorable settlement with Flores; requests of other deputies.

Pablo Carmona, Ignacio Ayala, and Pedro Valdés appointed by the Junta patriótica to prepare Cinco de Mayo celebration; need for funds.

Death of mother (1864) at hands of Fragoso's guerrillas when they burned stagecoach to get the mail from it; illness from heart trouble; fruitless effort to obtain pension from Monte Pío militar; poverty of daughter, widow of Imperial colonel; request for position in Directorio del Hospicio de pobres; children of Mariano Espinosa; Doctor Marroqui.

Recommendation for Lic. Joaquín A. Ramos; Lupe; Sra. Santa Anna.

Request for reconsideration of resignation from presidency of the Ayuntamiento to serve as deputy to the congress.

Order from Marroqui and Lerdo for receipts to be produced; purchase for Martínez; Romero (Ramón?) Rubio; protocolo de Villa, archives of the Ayuntamiento; papers in possession of C. Landgrave, dated 1856.

Gift of tamales; Antonio Haro's ordination in Compañía de Jesús in Rome.

Elections; concern with budget; resignations not accepted; Padilla.

Article “Algunas ideas sobre ferro-carriles...” in El Siglo XIX; plan for railways in population centers; meetings with governors of San Luis Potosí, Aguascalintes, Nuevo León, and Coahuila; meeting with Lic. Juan Antonio de la Fuente in Saltillo and Miguel Baigen in Matehuala in plan for approval of Supremo Gobierno then in Chihuahua, for trunk-line from Texas frontier to the Pacific; Governor of Zacatecas invited by Governor Juan Bustamante; loss of plan by Supremo Gobierno in move to Zacatecas; trip to England in 1867; inclusion of governors of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Colima, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Mexico, the D.F., recommended with legislative approval; Ayuntamiento de México to be included; title: “Compañía Nacional de ferro-carriles del Pacífico, México, y el Río Bravo”; branch to go to the capital; line to start at Piedras Negras, go via Laredo, Mier, Monterrey, Saltillo, Matehuala, Salinas del Peñón Blanco, Villita de la Encarnación, Guadalajara, Puerto de la Navidad, with spurs leading to San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro, and Mexico, Aguascalientes, and Zacatecas; spur from Monterrey to Matamoros and to Puerto de Boca de Jesús; from San Luis to Tampico, and from El Bajío de Guanajuato to Michoacán, subject to recommendations of engineers; relationship with American company disclaimed.

Appointment to Comisión de Beneficencia; illness of Ortega; Fondos de parcialidades turned over to the Municipal administration; recommendation to Lic. Martínez de la Torre; help of Landgrave; Síndico primero; resignation from the committees.

Need for ammunition and detachment of carabineros; difficulty caused by Article 18, Ley orgánica; administración de Rentas; salaries for troops; plan of Julio López; hacendados confused with Spaniards by Indians.

Joaquín; news from Asunción; offer of horse; Berriozábal; bandit raids; Lola; Mariano; Lupita; Barajitas.

Note from Julio López for Manuel and Antonio; demand of López for separation of El Monte and towns of Zula and Reyes, which were to be property of his followers; paper from Juzgado de Zula, signed Colonel López in Ashalco (Axalco?); rumors of arrival of 100 men from Mexico in Chalco to burn villages of Zula and San Gregorio; withdrawal of Julio toward Tenango; help requested of Antonio Colín, Vicente, and Pablo Granados; departure for Mexico; Pascual; Manuel Espinosa.

Supply of barley requested by pronunciados; weapons, money, and clothes taken from Atoyac; loss of horses; inaction of jefe político; San Martín; contributions by San Pablo; Riva Palacio reported opposed in Congress to firm measures.

Documents for Manuel and Ramón Terreros forwarded; legal representative of Rosas to appear at hearing of proposed dam in Apango.

Meeting with Valenzuela; Vértiz; income as executor of will.

Arrival of cavalry under Colonel Vargas; Julio López in Coatepeque; attack planned with Flores in Texcoco; detachment from Morelos arrived in Juchi; called meeting of hacendados announced in circular.

Fight between Julio López and Colonel Vargas at Hacienda de Buenavista; escape to Monte de Coatepeque; arrival of General Cuéllar in Córdoba; rebels reported at Compañía, San Martinito, and Monte de Axhalco; troops from Morelos and Juchi delayed; Galindo; Junta de hacendados; pronunciamiento in town of Purificación, Texcoco District; help by Flores delayed; Julio reported in Chalco; notice to Jefe político.

Dispute over piece of land in Laguna de Atenco between residents of Almoloya del Río and Texcaliacac; appointment to arbitration board; map of Laguna needed; map made in 1850 by Engineer Francisco Garay for Riva Palacio; request for map via Lic. Justino Fernández.

Transmittal of document and map for proposed dam at Arroyozarco by Blanco.

Julio López reported at Río Frío with troop; route of General Cuéllar from Buena Vista to Coatepec and Río Frío; prisoners sent to Jefe político in Chalco.

Transmittal of map of water drainage in Mexico; plan to be presented to the Ayuntamiento.

Luis Colín; marriage of Manuel; López in Axhalco; arrest of Matilde Calderón and Herrerien; letter of President to Jefe político recommending Pérez as Comandante for the troops; letter sent via Berriozábal for verification.

Disappearance of Julio; Manuel; arrival of Cuéllar with troops; Flores in Juchi; Pepe; Eguiluz; troops at La Asunción.

Mission to Chalco on order of Governor to pursue López; travel via Tacubaya, meeting requested; request for scouts for Coatepec, Río Frío, Barranca de Juanes, Ameca, Chiconquiahue, Axalco, and Monte de Juchi; meeting at Ayotla or Ayotzingo.

Lic. Alberto García; cavalry troop organized; troops sent by Colonel Cañedo; march to Chalco; attack on comunistas; use of state troops.

Deposit of $9,375 in Monte Pío funds. Addressed to Presidente del Ayuntamiento. By-line: Independencia y República.

Meeting of Junta menor; Terreros; legal provisions of law for retirement; funds for retirement.

Defeat of Julio López at Puente de San José; loss of horses; Junta de Hacendados; Chalco; provisions of General Cuéllar to take some prisoners in the Army, and to send some to Yucatán; arrest at Buenavista awaiting approval of the Gobierno General; surrender of arms; infantry troop at Coatepeque, Axhalco, and Asunción; General Eguiluz in El Monte with cavalry; Flores; Martínez.

Recommendation for Trinidad Rosillo in suit for possession of land before Ayuntamiento; service with Porfirio Díaz; recommendation of Vicente.

Flores to take over Jefatura política; Julio López in San Martinito; pursuit by Cuéllar's company; dispersal in El Monte; visit of governor to Chalco and Ameca; Tamamatla; Ayotzingo; Istapaluca; Texcoco; Junta de Hacendados; payment to support police force; fandangos.

Service as lieutenant in Escolta de la Brigada under General Vicente Riva Palacio; entry of Army into capital; discharge; poverty; request for aid.

Maximiliano Campos; fulfillment of request.

Congratulations for silver service sent as present to Riva Palacio by family of Maximilian for his defense of the Emperor.

Verification of request to Lerdo for exemption of writer and Payno from derechos de cobranza.

Capture of Julio López at Monte, near Juchi.

Petition of Laspita, requested by Junta gubernativa, sent to Ministerio de gobernación.

Meeting of Junta general called by the Junta Directiva; Reglamento de la Sociedad; 2 Calle del Espíritu Santo; notice for Manuel and Pedro Terreros.

Lic. Isidro Antonio Montiel; difficulty of state government; collection of derechos de estola and contributions; proposal to Gregorio de Mier y Terán and President Benito Juárez for share of Church income.

Exposición relativa al Hospital general sent to the President.

Prisoners from Julio López' band sent to Yucatán; request, with Juan Francisco, for Auxiliar de San Pablo to be pardoned; capture and execution of Lálo.

Request for immediate payment to Doña Antonia Melendes de Pérez, widow of Colonel Juan José Pérez, of full sum of pension.

José María Riva Palacio to represent Rozas in the Arroyozarco case; personal interest on behalf of daughter and goddaughter of Joaquín Rozas; Blanco criticized.

Vote of appreciation to the Soberano Congreso and Supremo Poder Ejecutivo for decree of May 25 favoring the road; committee made up of Ezequiel Montes, Mariano Riva Palacio, and Gabino F. Bustamante. Includes draft of answer, Mexico, August 21, 1868; Juárez' part; the Diputación permanente.

List of equipment of Capilla, Sacristia, the house, room by room, bath, kitchen, asotehuela, despacho, apero, Troje del Maíz, Granero, Gavillero, store, school, Jatos; Cuarto de lana, Loza, tomb of General Guerrero and Dolores Guerrero de Riva Palacio, wheat-cutting machine, bust of Javiera Riva Palacio; description of each room; Archicofradía; animals by classes; description of fields (tierra de Dolores), Hacienda de la Archicofradía, Potreros de Chalco, Tierras de la Hacienda de San Juan de Dios; Solar de Buenavista, Tierra de San Carlos or San Bartolo; Tierra de Santa Ana, earlier El Gavillero; Tierra de San Antonino earlier El Chilar; Pueblo de San Pablo; Tierra de la Santísima or Santiago Zula; Tierra de la Nopalera rented to Alejo Martínez of San Pablo; Teconestlale; Tierra de Aguapetlayuca; Cerro de Corrales called Topileka rented to Francisco Hernández of San Pablo; Corral de Achioca; Vaquería; Zumpango rented to Tomás Villanueva of Zula.

Legal proceedings against Alejo Martínez sent to the Ministerio de Guerra.

Effort to establish institute of music; purchase of land; gift of musical instruments solicited.

Monthly grant of $500 from the Supremo Gobierno; high expenses; request for contribution. By-line: Independencia y Reforma.

Request of artesanos to be submitted to Congress in September.

Transmittal of oficio from Junta popular directiva impulsora del camino de Querétaro á Tampico; Gabino F. Bustamante.

Interest of Riva Palacio and Primo de Rivera in preserving the Iglesia de Santo Domingo; architectural interest; examination by architects Hidalgo, Bustillos, Griffon, and a committee from the Colegio de Minería; reports in Ministerio de Gobernación; disagreement on condition of the building.

Newspaper reports; illness; stagecoach robbed; refuge in San Pedro Atzcapuzaltongo; pursuit by troops from Tlalnepantla; hail damage to corn; Barajas.

Notice of public lectures on Philosophy, Esthetics, and Musical History presented by the Sociedad filarmónica mexicana; music from Donizetti's Marino Faliero played by Rivas, Muro, Martínez, Hernández, and Ituarte; scene from Ituarte's Addio mia dolce speme sung by Pánfilo Cabrera; Philosophical discussions involving Fétis, J.J. Rousseau, Kant, Louis Berlioz, A. de Fallour, Greece, India, the Bible, Plato, San Agustín, San Juan; Ituarte's waltz Il desio sung by Srita. Guadalupe R. y Espejo; poetry by Guillermo Prieto; Liszt's fantasy from Miserere del Trovador on piano; Contreras' Marcha by the Orfeón del Águila Nacional; Director Julio Ituarte.

Request for help of Ayuntamiento in avoiding eviction over payment of rent; complaint of Ángel Calderón.

Recommendation for Ricardo Palacio in effort to save his son Colonel Adolfo Palacio; services for the Reform Program and against the French; service under General Rosales and General Corona; support of General Martínez in civil war over elections; arrest at Rosario while trying to reach Durango; trial in Sinaloa; request for intercession with President.

Appointment by Luis Elizalde as fiador de réditos for funds deposited with the Ayuntamiento for charity; request for place on Junta de Hacienda.

García's business with Spaniard Maguibar dissolved; notice in newspapers on advice of Vicente; bankruptcy of Maguibar; García's trip to Spain stopped at Veracruz by court order of Hoffman Síndico del Concurso; Spaniard Ibarrola; illness of Guillermo; Benito Sánchez; telegram to Chole (?).

Examination of Iglesia de Santo Domingo by unqualified inspectors sent by the Governor; Álvarez; Rul; Bustillos; qualified architect needed.

Resignation presented to Legislature because of ill health; difficulty of filling vacancies; need for qualified personnel; military forces requested by the Jefes políticos; trouble caused by bandits; resignation rejected.

Candidacy for Suprema Corte de Justicia; action by Government sent to Ministerio de Hacienda. Includes draft of answer; service on Supreme Court during Intervention.

Alejo Martínez sent to Comandancia militar by the Ministerio de la Guerra for transport to Yucatán; request for leniency; Flores.

Disadvantages caused employees of the Clavería de Catedral by the Cabildo; death of wife during siege; illness with cancer of the eyes; request for help.

Support of Rozas in suit with Pueblo de Polotitlán; owner of Finca de Arroyozarco; Salcedo; payment by Bermejillo; proposal for Academia de música.

Editing of report to be delivered by the Comisión de aguas to the Cabildo; notes available to Regidores; criticism by newspapers; comparison with the gas project.

Notice of appointment as temporary governor; leave granted governor; Legislature to elect new governor; Riva Palacio suggested as interim governor. Includes draft of answer, October 7, 1868, declining because of age (65) and double offices as deputy and head of the Ayuntamiento; Mexico given as his birthplace.

García Alberto approved as Secretario de Hacienda on recommendation of Martínez [de la Concha]; imprisonment of Arévalo; Lic. Bulman intended for Justicia; leave requested by Martínez; Legislature to elect successor; Zimbrón candidate for place; Guardia nacional exempt from Contribuciones personales in new bill; bill exempting owners of fincas rústicas from personal tax, but requiring tax for Seguridad pública; landowners' avoidance of contribución personal, tax for public instruction, and Guardia Nacional; Riva Palacio needed as governor.

Request for copy of the Ordenanzas municipales to send to Guadalajara for instruction of that Ayuntamiento.

Barreiro; Torre; debt owed Faustino Goribar; sale of furniture to pay debt.

Note praising Riva Palacio.

Inability to attend Cabildo meeting; vote in Congress on the railway question.

Meeting of Junta superior called by Ministro de Gobernación.

Request for defense against charges of Cendejas, Río Frío, and Mena; services to the Monte [de Piedad]; witnesses Pedraza and José Manuel Lebrija.

Blindness; encroachments of neighboring town on property of his estate in Toluca; town of Tlacotepec; Hacienda de Guadalupe; inability to get state authorities to restore property; reduced income; tax of $1500 required.

Promise to deliver document.

Transmittal of document; delivery of vajilla.

Departure for San Luis with Governor's permission.

Gift of jalea de tejocote by daughter María del Pilar; incomplete delivery of gift of silverware from Maximilian's family; inscription placed on portrait of Riva Palacio; Spanish preferred over Latin.

Recommendation for Presbítero Darío Espinosa, Cura of Zinacantepec; business with Gobernador de la Mitra.

New building for employees in the hydraulic water plant considered by the Ayuntamiento; plan by Regidor Casimiro Pacheco; request for position in new project; service in Ramo de Aguas; work in flood control.

$10,000 belonging to Manuel Terreros taken by Juan Francisco G. Lamadrid (in 1863?); effort to obtain position in elementary school in capital; certificate from the Compañía Lancasteriana.

Request for intercession to help Juan Othon return to his family; exile to Oaxaca for 3 years; release of more serious offenders; error in reporting to Querétaro on order of General Escobedo; passport to San Luis.

Opposition of Tenango to new priest; complaint to the Mitra; removal of Uribe requested.

Death of husband General Esteban V. León Aug. 5; request for pension at Montepío and Supremo Gobierno; back pay due from State of Mexico; request for help.

Imperial consuls still functioning in France; interpretation given in Cámara sent in letters to Europe; Circular of Ministerio de Relaciones, August 9, 1867 and clarification by Lerdo; publication in Diario oficial awaited; los Maneyros.

Arrangements for meeting; attendance at Congress meeting.

Suit by Eugenio Barreiro on behalf of Dorotea Moriarty against Serrano Brothers; request for statement by Riva Palacio as President of the Ayuntamiento and Cornelio Prado as Magistrado del Tribunal Superior on loan of money.

Request for letter stating he did not serve or support the Empire; statements by Montes and Lafragua.

Request for help in getting out of prison; poverty of his family; status as foreigner. Calle de Doncella No. 6.

Signed: Luis G. Durán, Abraham Estévez, M. Estévez, Margarito Guzmán, Camilo F. Aguilar, Felipe Gloria, Cayetano Ortiz, Andrés Camacho, and Estanislao D. García. Letter of Telésforo Tuñón Cañedo; complaint against Francisco de Uribe; request for return of Luis Castillo of Capulhuac; Misionero Ildefonso José de la Peña.

Twenty lines of verse addressed to President, President of the Ayuntamiento, and Regidor in charge of public instruction; Anahuac; Pacific; Atlantic.

Illness of Bishop [Pedro] Barajas [y Moreno]; request for help in obtaining permission of government for burial in the Cathedral.

Arrangements with Batres for marble decorations in the salon.

Invitation declined to dinner with members of the Ayuntamiento.

Value established for part of house torn down at 6 Plazuela de San Juan for widening the square; Dirección de Contribuciones; claims of legal advisor Ramón Alfaro; house on Calle de las Maravillas No. 4, belonging to Román Rosas; debts owed on the houses; difference in values.

Invitation to meeting in Teatro Nacional; distribution of prizes to distinguished students by the President, Benito Juárez. Signatories: Rafael Martínez de la Torre, Crescencio Landgrave, and Felipe López López. Printed by Díaz de León y White.

Request for permission to explain complaints to the Ayuntamiento. Signatories: Juana Herrera, Amada Rodríguez, Dolores Vázquez, Francisca Pérez, Juliana G[u]errero, Cornelia Aranda, Fernanda Lorenzana, Paulina Alva, Ángela Heras (?), Margarita Soto, Carlota Maldonado, Josefa Arenas, Aniceta Lorenzana, and Teófila Lorenzana.

Acceptance to dinner with the Ayuntamiento.

Invitation to dinner with Ayuntamiento declined because of illness; General Barriozábal.

Arrival from Otumba with Sheridan; organization of Gendarmerie; Junta of merchants and landowners; Nicolás in Chalco; trouble in Monte de Ameca with bandits from Puebla led by a Spaniard; money voted by merchants to support separate force taken as sign of distrust of the Gendarmerie; visit to Notario Cruz in Zumpango; cloth needed for uniforms; defeat of Islas at Teotihuacán by troops from Otumba; Apam; pursuit of Saldaña by Juan Francisco Bernal Díez after attacks on Toluca; fight at Ameca; el español Castillo killed by Nicolás [Cañedo]. Addressed to Governor.

Appointment as Jefe político; poverty of local hospital; request for government help.

Arrangements in Chalco, Otumba, and Texcoco for system of rondas; Sheridan; supply of horses; visits to Teotihuacán, San Cristóbal, and Tanepantla (Tlalnepantla) and Coautitlán (Cuautitlán), then Zumpango.

Hermoso appointed to organization of schools; disciple of Rodríguez Puebla; article on Institute in El Siglo; Ley de gendarmería in editorial; Cumplido's complaint; few subscribers in State of Mexico; visit by Engineer Gortsuch to explain plans and problems; interest in London in railway; Argens; Zamacona; publication of Compendio de Historia de México; dedication to Riva Palacio; collection of texts for primary instruction.

Recommendation for Tailor Ismael Flores to teach his art in the Institute.

Answer of Medina; Romo; need for Benito [Juárez] to take up firm plan for general pacification.

Resignation from Comisión de Hacienda; illness; disorder in public works; system of monthly budgets; cost of public works; street paving; opposition of La Revista Universal; Sáyago opposed to his project; profits for Sra. Baz, Sáyago, and Olvera.

Copy of El Constitucional; damage to his reputation over Hospicio affair; request for protection of his name. Includes note on reply, suggesting calmer discussion.

Request refused by the Junta Municipal; debt of Román Rosas to Fondos de Beneficencia; value of house 4, Calle de las Maravillas; property at 6 Plazuela de San Juan.

Recommendation for Lic. Cirilo Rodríguez de San Miguel; danger of loss of eyesight.

Receipt of velas de estearina from Agustín Andrade for photometric experiments in gas lighting.

Request for loan of $4,000 money to be received from Galarzas.

Constitution of 1857 to be celebrated February 5; meeting in the Alameda for school children; Fiesta de la Infancia; invitation to attend.

Suspension of Administrador del Hospicio de Pobres; Regidor Pérez Morgado; Señorita Juárez; request for the position.

Transmittal of collection taken up among employees for erection of statue of General Guerrero; help of Berriozábal and Santacilia; sent to Tesorero Municipal.

Meeting of hacendados to help furnish forage for Liberal troops; Comandante militar Pérez; shortage of barley and hay.

Riva Palacio reported ill; Carlos; illness of Antonino; withdrawal of detachment from Cuatitlán (Cuautitlán); Barajas.

Request to the Ministerio de la Guerra not to withdraw guards from prisoners to use in pursuit of bandits; local unrest; request for support.

Recommendation for Amílcar Rincón; business with the Ayuntamiento.

Sojourn in Hospital of San Pablo; position in public schools suggested by Regidores; night schools; article by Prieto in El Monitor, “Los alrededores de México”; support of editor of El Siglo 19; illness with skin trouble; removal on order of Montaño; need for adult education; need for decision of Ayuntamiento; Junta directiva de Instrucción pública; Escuela normal de profesores.

Project to erect monument to Cuauhtémoctzin and Aztec glories; model approved; cost placed at $2500; need for recognition of Aztecs; better spirit in Indians anticipated; plan of Riva Palacio to leave office.

Brother Luis; health of Antonino; loss of government position; spirit of provincialism; worsened conditions in the district; failures in administration of justice; preoccupation of Jefe político with chasing bandits; revolt in San Gregorio against haciendas; paralysis of commerce and agriculture; roads plagued with bandits; danger from troops of Negrete; wife's desire to move to Mexico; request for help in finding position; danger to Manuel on La Asunción.

Request for help in finding position; acquaintance with Antonino, Carlos, and Manuel when stationed at La Asunción in 1866.

Improved health; danger at Tlalmanalco from robbers; Antonino; San Bartolo; planting of crops; Topinambur; irrigation; deliveries to Molina; Andra.

Request of Luis de Arroyo to return to Mexico refused by President; bad report given by Governor of Mexico State on Legorreta. Includes returned letter from Arroyo.

José Vélez recommended for position as Jefe político; Nueva (?) Medina.

Request for help to his brother Juan on mission to Mexico for the State of Chihuahua to settle problem of coining of a copper coin started when the government in exile stayed in Chihuahua.

Civil disturbance in Temoaya; arrest of Germán in Actopan; order of Governor of Pachuca; increased number of bandits; incidents at San Antonio; withdrawal of rurales from Actopan; request for letter to Governor of Hidalgo or Secretary Robert to speed trial [of Germán]; $200 sent for Ramón; loss of servant girl to Asunción; letter for Terreros; Nicolás del Moral; appointment to committee to evaluate Hacienda de Cuamatla; Barajas.

Arrival of Puebla and Campos with letter from Riva Palacio; illness of Puebla; doctor's visit.

Pulquería on corner of Plazuela de Madrid; arrangements for memorial to General Guerrero.

Insistence of Manuel Echeverría on keeping family with him; arrival of Guadalupita with Doña Bernabela Arriaga de Rubio; death of Manuela Marmolejo de Godoy; divorce proposed by José María Godoy through lawyer Luis Robles; request for mediation of Riva Palacio.

Addressed to Toluca.

Brother Manuel; freedom from suspicion and charges attributed to Riva Palacio.

Illness of Flores; leave allowed for residence in Chalco or Texcoco and supervision of Seguridad Pública; infestation with bandits; Alcalde Municipal Juan Francisco López left in charge.

Danger of trouble over candidates for Governor; Leyva supported by the government; local support for porfiristas; candidacy of third person suggested for State of Morelos.

Facundo Gómez; danger of civil war in Seville; strong religious feelings locally; epilepsy of son.

Misunderstanding caused by previous letter; support of the Gobierno General; Cruz.

Riva Palacio asked to defend him; Agustín Siliceo; General Escobedo; Lic. Alcalde y Acosta.

Papers for his defense to be delivered by Diputado Juan B. Acosta; trial before Cámara de la Unión.

Charges against Cervantes brought by his enemies; General Paz (Páez?); Congreso de la Unión; opposition of Diputado Domínguez; Diputado Acosta.

Leave not possible; authority of Legislature not recognized; absence of Junta Consultiva and Vice-Governor; Acosta charged with representation.

Introduction to Juan Pardo; conditions in Querétaro.

Letter from Arroyozarco; meeting with Cervantes; Padre Campa; meeting with legislature; impasse in negotiations; Montes, Alcalde, and Siliceo; Lic. Próspero C. Vega. Includes copy of actions taken:

Bases for negotiations received from Riva Palacio and Diputado Montes via Juan Pardo; conference with General Escobedo; impasse with Legislature.

Appointment for interview arranged via Agustín Cruz; No. 3. Calle de San Francisco.

Opposition of legislature; comparison with San Luis Potosí; opposition of the Indians; deterioration of public affairs; involvement of Cervantes and Juan Pardo.

Request for clarification of relationship of Ayuntamiento with Capellán del Santuario de los Remedios; responsibility of the Mitra.

Witnesses José Martínez del Campo (3, Segunda Calle de la Pila Seca), José Vargas (7, Calle de los Migueles); contract of 1855 before Ramón de la Cueva; lease on Hacienda de Santa María de Atoyac to Pedro Escudero y Echánove; Jurisdicción de Chalco; delivery of corn; transfer of lease to Riva Palacio; address at 7, San José el Real.

Account of journey from Mexico; accident to carriage and Church of La Encarnación; La Enseñanza; hospitality of Manuel Cordero; lodging in mezones and private homes; effects left by revolutions and bandits; enumeration of local crimes; Maldonado; Múgica; Riva Palacio mentioned as deputy from Jalisco; nominations by Estanislao Cañedo; Antonio Álvarez del Castillo.

Request for $300 to finish publication of novel.

Election of Manuel as Deputy declared illegal by Jefe politico; daughter's illness treated by doctor.

Riva Palacio elected deputy to the Congreso de la Unión; Blas Zamora possible substitute.

Election of Riva Palacio and Blas.

Loss of election through strict interpretation of the law; Maximiliano Campos.

Transmittal of credentials in election; Martínez de Castro and Montes elected for Superior Corte; results in Toluca; Montiel to win in Zinacantep[ec]; Fuentes Muñiz; need for water; San Bartolo.

Failure to elect Manuel; Terreros supported by Indians.

Support of Berriozábal and Juan in elections; nomination suggested by Flores; orator compared with greeting of Carlota and Maximilian in Guadalupe Hidalgo; Portilla recommended; Martínez de Castro. Has draft of answer, July 15.

Congratulations on election; addressed also to Manuel Dublán Unda.

Acceptance of election as deputy from Oaxaca; previous election as citizen of Oaxaca.

Congratulations on election; Signed: Pantaleón Tovar, Mariano Ramírez, Benito Borja, Guillermo Castellanos, A. G. Brito (?), Ángel Cabrera, Antonio López, Luis Agustín Chauri (?), Ignacio M. Lerdo, José María Pérez Berruecos, Jn. Robert, Mariano Guiol, A. Quintanar, F. Laborde, Gregorio Valdés, F. González de González, Melchor Velarde, José R. Rojo, and José María Lombardini.

Election of Riva Palacio as Deputy from Oaxaca.

Appointment for interview with Luis Rivera Melo.

Inauguration of bust of Cuau[h]témo[c]tzin in La Viga; attendance requested.

Election of General Leyva as governor; departure of writer for Yautepec to assume duties on staff.

Introduction to Doctor Francisco Galván, elected to the Congreso Nacional.

Regrets over death of Pepe [Riva Palacio]; notice in El Siglo, August 17.

Regrets over death of son Pepe; election called by provisional Governor Baranda; Legislature to meet in Yautepec; meeting of six deputies; decision to move to Cuernavaca; opposition of Peña and Portilla; Cua[u]tla; Morelos; personal interest of Peña as Administrador de la Hacienda de Santa Inés; Agustín Rovalo to be Secretario; unsolved problem of locating the capital.

Location of the capital; Rovalo; compromise and conciliation suggested.

Death of Pepe.

Request for reasons for recommending his dismissal in favor of Palomo as Jefe político to the Governor.

Secretary Jiménez sent to discuss state problems.

Opposition to appointment of Manuel Ceballos to be Jefe político; praise for López; suggested annexation of Chalco to Morelos in movement started in Cuautla and Cuernavaca.

Indefinite status of election of President; Iturbe.

Request for intercession with Governor to protect his position; Palomo; Martínez de la Concha. Includes draft of reply, September 4, 1869, declining.

Request for aid in finding employment; danger of eviction for default on rent; service in Escuela Municipal; effort to interest Lic. Lucio Padilla; request for recommendation to Isidoro Torre or Antonio Mier y Terán; Administrador Pacheco.

Movement of comunistas reported in Huaquichila (Huaquechula?) of Puebla State with others from Tepetlixpa and Ozumba.

District Tenango del Valle; statement of appreciation for return of Riva Palacio to position as governor; end of leave period for substitute.

Mission of son Joaquín to the Congreso de la Nación; request for his orientation.

Denial of rumors he worked against Riva Palacio in elections; reference given to Cura de Ozumba, and Silviano Martínez, Administrador de la Hacienda del Moral.

Promise to deliver copy of speech.

Election of Riva Palacio to be governor; Lic. Antonio Zimbrón in second place.

Election returns; election of Riva Palacio as governor by acclamation. Signatories: Victorio Santiago, Albino Martín, Felipe Miranda, Pánfilo García, Francisco García, Ignacio Santiago, José González, Vicente Vilchis, Francisco Celedonio, Atanasio Mercado, Rafael Miranda, José Bernardino, Florentino Gómez, Felipe Trinidad, Vicente Alcántara, José Simón, José Antonio Monroy, Mariano Antonio, José María Hernández, José María García, Luis Cervantes (President), Sixto César, Pantaleón Castro, Agapito Zarza, Isidro del Río, Rosalio Ballena, Mateo Rosas, Joaquín Martín, José Rosas, Félix López, Rafael Caballero, Julián Gutiérrez, Eulogio Ruiz, Tomás Rea, Ignacio García, Ramón Mercado, Pedro Caballero, Rafael Sánchez, Librado Basurto, Leandro Iglesias, Gregorio Monroy, Calisto Martínez, Antonio Castro, V. Chimal, Juan Sánchez, Rosalino Robledo, Vicente María Basurto, José Resendiz, José Matías, Antonio Gabriel, Teófilo González.

Visit with Guadarrama to Palacio Municipal during computation of votes; errand for Jajalpa; election of Mariano Zavala; Ferrat; Bernal; Villegas; impatience of populace to hear results; Piña; picture of Mariano carried by the crowd; Calle de Riva Palacio; Alameda; garrison alerted and led in parade; Mariano called Padre del Estado.

Meeting with deputies; Santa Inés; hope for solution.

Request for loan of $100; business in tierra caliente; Lic. Ignacio Cejudo, deputy, given as reference; 9 Calle de la Pradera.

Election of Riva Palacio; travel to the capital.

Notice via Pacheco and Rovalo of compromise to have the capital in Cuernavaca 6 months and in Cuautla 6 months; letter to Leyva; work on constitution; Frías y Soto to be secretary.

Election of Riva Palacio as Presidente de la Cámara; request for help to son Mariano in Secretaría del Congreso.

Transmittal of copy of election results favoring Riva Palacio to replace Governor J. María de la Concha; colegio electoral; Tapia elected to Congreso de la Unión to get him out of district and position as jefe político.

Position in Administración de Rentas; effect of climate; education of children; preference for place in Administración de Cuautitlán or T[l]a[l]nepantla; departure of Gallardo.

Arrival from Cuernavaca on mission from Governor Leyva; meeting of Leyva with deputies; idea of plebescite on location of capital avoided; majority in favor of Morelos; efforts to persuade Tetecala and Yautepec to support Cuernavaca; Robelo; Necoechea; Cuernavaquistas; support of Jonacatepec lost; Celís Cuadra; Peña; Roano.

Riva Palacio elected governor; committee to make announcement.

Request for aid in collecting $1,000 from Fondos municipales and Fondo de alimento de presos for money advanced by Mariano Olavarrieta; inaction in Jefatura.

Introduction to Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Ceballos, Jefe político in Texcoco District during writer's term as governor. Calle San Lorenzo.

Bill introduced by Cuadra following Riva Palacio's suggestion. Addressed to Presidente del Congreso de la Unión.

Services to nation under the “nieto del ilustre Guerrero”; poverty caused by broken arm; request for help in obtaining compensation; family in Toluca.

Return of Quintana with family from Tepexpan with plan to sell hacienda; search for new employment; interest in administration of Santa Catarina; death of Ramón de la Cueva; land promised by Quintana.

Congratulations on election as governor.

Request for support of newly established school for girls on secondary level in old Lotería, later occupied by Ministerio de Gobernación, facing Santa Catarina de Sena.

Service as Jefe de Sección in Ministerio de la Guerra, as Jefe político in Cantón de Lagos, as Secretario de Gobierno en Jalisco y en San Luis Potosí; available as Oficial mayor de la Secretaría de Gobierno in Mexico State and as editor of Periódico oficial or as jefe político.

Recommendation for Ignacio Díaz Pérez for State of Mexico.

Death of Flores; José Emilio Bernal to be Comandante de la Caballería de Texcoco; appointment by Ceballos; Toluca.

Recommendation for Colonel Juan Torres; support of republic against Intervention and the Empire. Address: Calle de Donceles No. 16.

Congratulations on election as governor.

Availability for employment; services of father Mariano Ruiz as Administrador de Yautepec; service as visitador de Aduanas in Third District in 1862; place sought in Toluca. Supporting documents:

Congratulations on election as governor.

Congratulations on election as governor.

Recommendation for Ruiz; services in War of 1847.

Congratulations on election as governor; critical times facing the nation.

Bandit attack on Germán Martínez near Juchitepec road.

Interview for son requested to discuss situation in Administración de rentas de Tlalnepantla.

Congratulations on election as governor.

Rivera Melo; letter for Europe; letter for Berriozábal; distribution of printed Mensaje to President, Ministers, Governor, districts, Payno, copies for Toluca, friends; Eduardo; letters for Chavarría; A. Parada; Tavera; Lupe.

Copies of Mensaje received from Barajas; Cruz; Castellanos; Lozano.

REgrets on missing trip to Toluca; plan for Castillo.

Meeting of bandits reported at Querétaro, planning march on Toluca with cry “Tierra Quemada” for meeting with Abraham Plata; orders to Colonel Fidencio Villagrán of Fuerzas de Seguridad to guard road to Arroyozarco; Colonel Pedro García Salgado to go to Monte de las Cruces.

Request for amnesty; pronunciamiento against opression by the jefe político; request for interview.

Recommendation for Lic. Blas Galván; recommendation by Gómez Pérez.

Services in Tribunal de Justicia; request for new position.

Discharge from position as Jefe político of Temascaltepec by Zimbrón; service in Tesorería general, in Secretaría del Gobierno, and in Sección de Guerra; office as major in Guardia Nacional de Asamblea in Temascaltepec; references given as Lic. Robredo, Montiel, Martínez de la Concha, García Luna, García Alberto, Colonel Cañedo, Guillermo González, and General Vicente Riva Palacio.

Replacement by Zincúnegui on order of Zimbrón; opposition of Zimbrón to his election as deputy; service in Administración de Toluca under Martínez de la Concha; service in Cuautitlán.

Recommendation for Luis Reina, ex-aide to Vicente; major in Toluca.

Services of husband Colonel Agustín Álvarez Mendizábal during Intervention; his lack of employment; hospitality of Cura Merlin and Cura Muñoz; help of Agustín Pérez de Lara; Cruz de Primera Clase; request for help. Address: Primer Callejón de Jacome, No. 17.

News by English packet; loss of son of Riva Palacio; expression of regrets; Manuel Terreros.

Request for help in return to Guanajuato, his birthplace; nervous trouble; lack of employment; Doctor Olivera.

Welcome given Riva Palacio; request for intercession with Lerdo to help Berriozábal in candidacy for deputy to the Congreso General from Xochimilco; Sebastián; Aguirre de la Barrera.

Hope for better government; Berriozábal.

Request for position as Juez de Letras in Texcoco; illness of Aunt Guadalupe in Toluca; illness of Catalina.

Visit to Lozano with Cañedo; letter for Lic. Trejo; reconnaissance of Chalco, Ameca, and Juchi by Cañedo; Texcoco; payment to Barajas; debt due Pacheco; death of Ramón de la Cueva; settlement of his property.

Need for new Jefe político in District of Texcoco; policy of Zimbrón; recommendation for José María Espinosa, a landowner.

Difficulty of moving to Toluca; letters for Berriozábal given Barajitas; Lic. Eduardo Trejo; Vicente; Jesús Medina recommended for Jefe político or Visitador de rentas; Josefina; Carlos; Antonino; recommendation for newspapers sent to Barajas; articles in Monitor and Orquesta.

Employment requested for uncle, Manuel González Alonso; service in Tesorería of the Ayuntamiento and as Juez de registro civil.

Bandits reported at Monte de las Cruces and District of Tlalnepantla; defenselessness of area; danger to Toluca; Juan García, nephew of Pedro García reported as leader; in Tlalnepantla leader said to be Bartolo Santiyán, escapee from Cuautitlán jail; attack on Ahuehuetes and San Bartolo; troops sent to Lerma under Colonel Pablo Gómez; return to Asunción to help Juan Francisco [López] and Cañedo; Trejo; Lozano; Acevedo recommended by Vicente.

Acceptance of position as prefect; Lozano; weak health.

José María Espinosa recommended to replace Jefe político in District of Texcoco.

Bandits reported on roads; complaints by passengers in stagecoach; José Acevedo recommended. Note by Josefina: Rivera; Antonino; Lupe.

Measures taken by Tuñón Cañedo against bandits; pronunciamiento of escort on Toluca road; attack on Lerma; escape toward Tianguistengo; new attack on San Nicolás de los Ranchos near Ameca.

Regrets over death of Pepe; proof of demoralization of the country; Manuel [Terreros?]

Berriozábal's report on attack at Las Cruces; district found full of elements of disorder; return from Tlalmanalco; link with pronunciados in Morelos and Atlixco; Juan Francisco [López].

Efforts to stop bandit raids; funds requested of Receptoria de Rentas; orders from Tenango.

Congratulations on office; misfortunes befallen the state.

Trejo's willingness to accept office in Texcoco reported by Lozano; departure for Asunción; Cañedo; reduced danger of attack on Toluca; Ministerio de la Guerra.

Colonel Joaquín Ortega recommended by Deputy Pedro Barranda for a Jefatura. Calle Segunda del Correo Mayor No. 5.

Arrival of government troops in Ocoyoacac; Limón in charge of State troops; military expenses begrudged; appointment of Jesús Medina as Jefe político on recommendation of Rivera Melo; inspection of Sultepec; Josefina; Lupe.

Troops of Batallón Mercado under Comandante Valladares; danger of uprising ended; paroled individuals not involved; rebels not classed as Liberals.

Congratulations on election as Governor.

Report of rebels at Jalmolonga sent to Limón; troops requested of Coatepec Harinas and Jefe político of Tetecala; rebels mounted; Reynoso; effort to communicate with Juan García, supposéd leader of bandits; “Milagro de San Vicente Ferrer.”

Care for friends Carlos Castillo, Jesús Berdún (?), carpenter Liceaga; José Acevedo; more troops available in Tenancingo, San Pablo, and Zumpahuacán through Pablo Zamora and brothers of Pablo Millán; ability of García to raise troops in Temaloya; Izquierdo in Coatepec near Tenancingo able to raise troops. Includes note by Josefina; Lupe.

Passengers to Toluca turned back in fear of roads; scare caused by incident at Monte de las Cruces; Pacheco; Barajas; Don Andrés; Josefina; Vicente; Poncho; Pepita.

Letter sent with Alférez Pedro Ocampo; Comandante Cañedo; Captain Gerónimo Tejeda.

Decision to end withdrawal into private life and return to public service; availability for Administración de Rentas; preference for Jilotepec.

Fear for safety of Toluca; incident at El Monte; Felipe; Lerma; Nelzen(?); Payno; Baz; wider amnesty suggested to Benito.

Acceptance of Trejo; Espinosa; the Xochimilco affair dropped.

Defection of escorts on roads toward Cuautitlán.

Defection of road guards; Gordillo; Méndez; Rivera; payment by Mayen and Galarza; Garrido; Felipe Berriozábal's departure for Chalco; French packet; Facundo; Antonino; Manuel and Zornosa(?) to go with Carlos; payment received from the Congress; Atilano; Palomo; Antonio Mier; Rebollar; Sandoval; Payno; Argumosa; Aguilar; Andrés; rain.

Small rebellion in Ixtapan, District of Zacualpan in 1867; high cost to government; Francisco Reynoso reported leader of pronunciamiento in Malinalco.

Funds for troops requested by Colonel Pablo Gómez; collection of $400.

Co-operation with Colonel Gómez; ammunition supply at Tenango; Cuchitlán (Juchitlán?); enemy at Chalma and Hocuila (Cocuila?).

Barajitas; Dosamantes; meeting with Herrera Campos; cost of public instruction program; sale of corn; income from Salgado and Parangueo expected; Martínez; Hacienda de Cuamatla; sale of Hotel de Iturbide proposed to Castillo by Landas in trade for Cuamatla; “el viejo Santa María.”

Command of city turned over to Carlos Castillo; Lupe; Josefina; Chente; pursuit of pronunciados at Jalmolonga by Limón.

Defection from road escort; Lic. Córdoba; fear for safety of Riva Palacio.

Arrival with Colonel Gómez; pursuit of enemy by Colonel Limón toward Ajuchitlán; troops fatigued; Alférez Ocampo in Malinalco; return to Santiago; need for funds; departure for Jalatlaco.

Departure of Limón for Ajuchitlán; route from Palpan to Chalma and Ocuila[n]; possible interception of mail; enemy defeated at Mansillas by “una fuerza que viste traje azul y chacó”; scouts sent to Ajusco, Capulín, and Atlapulco; Ranchería del Flojo.

Tactics involving Alférez Ocampo and Captain Tejada; arrival in Palpa; departure with Colonel Gómez for El Monte; Ocuila[n].

Letter from Cañedo; Vicente; Berriozábal.

Recommendation for Juan Rossell; minor role in Empire; suggested for Administración de Otumba; Montiel.

Meeting with General Berriozábal; departure for Texcoco; use of Toluca troops; Limón; Fraustro.

Manuel Muñoz; meeting with la superiora; transfer of “la princesa” to foundation in San Andrés Chalchicomula; Sor Elena; Toluca; Josefina; Carlota; Vicente; “Milicia Polnecito (?)”; Pacheco; Baz; credentials of Juan José for deputy approved; Luciana; Antonino; Manuel; Lola; Carlos; Isabel; Manuel Mier ill. Note by Vicente.

Calm in Temoaya; low prices for pulque; Barajas; heavy rains.

Request for appointment as Administrador subalterno de Otumba to replace Ramírez; shortage of $3,000 given to Casa de Arroniz y Madrid for tobacco; funds from Fondos de Papel sellado; service of writer with Administrador Ricardo Palacio in Manzanillo as Contador; Ramo de Hacienda; Octaviano Muñoz Ledo; service in Administración principal de rentas de Michoacán, in Contribuciones directas; laws written by Piña y Cuevas; work in Administración de rentas del Departamento de Iturbide and in the Dirección de Rentas; service under the Empire.

Notice to Fuentes Muñiz accepting appointment as Visitador de Rentas in Sultepec; travel with Government to San Luis in 1863; opposition to Empire.

Skill in military tactics; Fuentes; Barton; Grant.

Travel via Jalatlaco and Rancho Flojo; Colonel Limón; Llano de Mancilla; work of Colonel Carrión; defeat of rebels; Ranchería de Horno Viejo; pursuit of Abraham Plata; contact at Las Cieneguillas; capture of Cerro de San Miguel; Colonel Gómez; need for funds; sick soldiers at Malinalco; casualties.

Letter for Colonel Pablo Gómez; loss of communication with other forces; enemy dispersed at Ajuchitlán; defeat of enemy at Huichilac (Huichila, Veracruz State?).

Request for appointment of lawyer to handle will of Godoy; Lic. Juan B. Herrera suggested.

Family to move to Toluca; Carlos; Manuel; position of private secretary to Riva Palacio; Carlos and family moved to Ixmiquilpan; Vicente; newspaper reports; safety of roads; attack on rebels; report from Prefecto de Tlalpam Antonio Carrión on defeat of rebels at Las Cruces; Monitor; appointment of Jesús Medina; Juan Francisco; Juzgado de Temascaltepec; Felipe Mañón; Lic. Villavicencio's trip to Toluca and Chalco.

Recomendation for José Mariano Hermosillo; service as Contador del Manzanillo under appointment by Muñoz Ledo in 1856; Administración de Otumba.

Cañedo in Chalco and Texcoco; Juan Francisco; dispersal of enemy at Las Cruces; meeting with Trejo at La Compañía; Palomo; bandits reported at Monte de Cuatlinchan (?); uprising in Las Cruces; Martínez de la Torre; Cueva; sale of corn; Sra. Ortuño (?); note endorsed to Cornelio; effort of Manuel to buy part of Hacienda de Octozá from Peña; Montiel criticized for recommendation for Jefe político in Texcoco on request of Mejía.

Resignation as Jefe político of Villa del Valle to enter Congreso de la Unión; Memoria left under Article 18 of the Ley Orgánica of April 21, 1868; recommendation for José González y González.

Campbell & Co. recommended for contract to establish telegraph line [to Toluca].

Fragment of letter from Tetecala.

101 prisoners in jail; burden on municipal funds; need for speed-up in handling cases and confirmation of sentences; poor food of prisoners; policy of Martínez de la Concha; Ayuntamiento de México; rebels defeated at Mancilla; troops sent to Tenango; warnings to Alcaldes of Juchi, Ayotzingo, Temamatla, and Ayapango; forces available to Comandante Petronilo Cortés; Ameca; Ozumba; Tepetlixpa; arrieros robbed at Ocoxusco en route to Totolapan.

Request for letter recommending him to the Administrador de Texcoco for use in local defense; need for employment.

Departure of Cañedo for Otumba; Berriozábal needed in Jefatura de Chalco; Juan Francisco; Aureliano reported near.

Case against Rafael Ríos delayed; charge against Ríos in Juzgado de Letras de Chalco; case referred to Superior Tribunal, Ministerio Fiscal, and Abogado Procurador.

Watermark: LaCroix Frères.

Recommendation for Colonel Torres; Toluca; vacancy in Prefectura de Otumba.

Transmittal of bandos in the Police section of the Ayuntamiento de México.

Arrival of Lic. Eduardo Trejo as Jefe político; regret to lose Jefe Bandera; work with Colonel Cañedo; title of Alcalde Constitucional.

Escuadrón Mercado left to guard road at Jajalpa; scouts sent to Mayarzo (Mayorazgo?) and San Nicolás; reconnaissance to Monte Alto by Colonel Gómez; Bandido Bartolo Santillán.

Francisco Limón; police and carabineros under Colonel Pablo Gómez at Veladero; Escuadrón Mercado and Batallón de Seguridad Pública to go to Hacienda del Mayorazgo and Jajalpa; rebels suspected at Acupilco and in montes of the Distrito Federal or Distrito de Tlalnepantla, but not at Monte de las Cruces.

Gendarmes de Toluca and rifleros under Lieutenant Colonel Villarreal at Lerma; Mayorazgo guarded; Escuadrón Mercado at Jajalpa with Company of the Batallón de Seguridad; scouts sent out from Metepec, San Bartolo, San Juan Tilapa, Clacotepec (Tlacotepec?), and Sacanzo (Lacango?) (?); march to Monte de San Antonio and Rolean(?); search of each hacienda and ravine; interrogation of Francisco Olascoaga.

Primary schools in Chiautla, Papalotla, and Tepetlaoxtoc closed for lack of funds; income from Contribución personal not remitted from Administración de Texcoco; Colonel Francisco(?) María Aguilar of Ameca given command by Tuñón Cañedo.

Recommendation for General Luis Tola; distinguished service under Comonfort as head of Engineer Section in campaign against reactionaries at Puebla; La Revista; profession of architect; need for scientific college.

Letter to Montiel read by Riva Palacio; Berriozábal; aid for Verdiguel; election of Julio Valade declared null by Congress; new election for deputy in District of Mazatlán, Sinaloa State; Berriozábal recommended for Congress; letter to Lerdo requested; interests of Dr. Lerdo's brother in Mazatlán; Echeguren; success of Verdiguel in District of Tlalnepantla; Cuautitlán.

Jesús Medina; bust of General Guerrero to be cast; Islas; use of sand or clay for cast.

Request for order to Tesorería general for funds for the Guardia Nacional.

First volume of his Memorias bound in holandesa fina; price $2/4; purchases by Benito Juárez, Ministro de Hacienda, ministers and deputies; lithograph of Guerrero sent by Riva Palacio used.

Explanation for delay in handling legal cases; Juzgado de Chalco.

Colonel Cañedo; co-operation with policy described to State Legislature.

Distribution of copies of Riva Palacio's state policy; Cañedo; bandits protected by persons of influence; agreement with Jefes políticos of Cuautitlán, Zumpango, and Lerma; Colonel Villagrán; municipal funds; paving of streets and road to Mexico; Calle del 15 de mayo in need of cleaning; danger of typhus; delay in city lighting; complication in Contribución personal; aid of Gómez Gallardo; schools continuing in spite of lack of funds.

Request for payment of money advanced by late husband José Francisco Velázquez for freeing prisoners in district jail; excessive number of prisoners; appeals of Ayuntamiento to Supremo Gobierno of the state; $234 due brother-in-law Mariano Olavarrieta from Ramo de Instrucción Pública for house furnished for girls' school.

Son Juan recommended for position in government.

Request for date for election for electors for deputies to state legislature; Distrito del Valle; plan to visit Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán, Zumpango, Otumba, Texcoco, and Chalco to support government candidates; Jilotepec; agitation for removal of Verdiguel; Verdiguel preferred over Núñez; Ceballos; Cañedo's plan for capture of Bartolo Santillán y Ormpaisa(?); withdrawal of federal troops from Cuautitlán roads recommended by Mejía; safety from bands dispersed at Las Cruces; Manuel's difficulties in purchase of hacienda from Piña; Carlos; “la mosca de Cueva”; Sra. Ortuño; Mina del Rosario.

Recommendation for Major David Figueroa; service in Campaign in Michoacán.

Recommendation for Colonel Francisco María Aguilar of Distrito de Chalco, resident of Amecameca.

Disagreement with Castillo over Cuamatla and Parangueo; Herrera; interest of Lic. Rafael Illescas in Cuamatla; Unanue; Campbell & Co.

Efforts to establish peace between villages of Zictepec Joquicingo and Tepexoxuca with aid of Cárdenas; meetings with Vicario foráneo and priests.

Long service as escribiente in the Renta of the district; supervision of Francisco Cossio; 5-month income of office placed at $23,482; inadequacy of pension as Cabo del Resguardo; Law of April 28, 1868; monthly salary of $25.

Active work of the Tribunal de justicia; use of prisoners for road construction; plan to build workshops and sell products for improvement of prisoners' living conditions; prisoners' wives forced into prostitution; use of the Contribución personal for improvements proposed by the Ayuntamiento de Tlalmanalco; income of Municipalidad de Tlalmanalco compared with the district; failure to comply with law of April 21, 1868 on primary education; letter from Jesusita Velázquez; Gracia [López]; Lic. Chaves.

Decoration with the Cruz de la primera clase; letter to the President; praise of Vicente Riva Palacio; service as major general; broken arm suffered in campaign; responsibility for the debt incurred by the Ejército republicano del Centro; suggested assignment to the Ramo de Hacienda; address, 5a del Relox No. 4.

Barajas; Riva Palacio called “Dueño de mis opiniones políticas y religiosas” and “Seguridad para las personas y propiedades.” Manuel Cuevas; progress of work on tomb at San Fernando; Agustín Días Barreiro recommended for position by Micaela Barreiro; Rivera; Puchero.

Trip by Barajas; Martínez; Junta de Códigos; illness of Martínez.

Mail forwarded to Juan Croz for Chalco, Texcoco, and Otumba; mail for Asunción and for Juan Francisco; travel to Tlalnepantla with Aguirre; Verdiguel, and Zubieta; influence in elections; meeting with Pérez Tejada in Tepotzotlán; meetings with Prefectos de Cuautitlán and Zumpango; communications with Jilotepec and Otumba to influence elections; travel to Texcoco and Chalco; election of deputies; instructions not to interfere in elections.

Report from Temoaya; departure for Europe; papers turned over to Barajas for inventory; Temoaya not to be visited; visit from Berriozábal, Aguirre, and El Licenciado; meeting with Jefe políticos from Cuautitlán and Zumpango; Nolasco.

Meeting of representatives of 14 governors; notice published in Ferrocarril No. 18; Berriozábal appointed in previous year; statutes for the Compañía Nacional to be voted on by Junta directiva; Junta general de accionista; Cuautitlán's interest in railroad; purchase of shares by Zumpango and Tanepantla [Tlalnepantla?]; supply of labor and materials; congratulations on speech of the 3rd.

Absence from governor's procession to Toluca; recommendation for Jilotepec; Fernández Alfaro, Juez de 1[UNK] Instancia; Administrador de Rentas Adrián Varela; new deputies discussed with Berriozábal, Aguirre; copies of La Ley sent to archives.

Anonymous letter received warning of uprising; warning against sending a soldado puro; signature: Amigo que mucho lo quiere.

Meeting of Junta de Autoridades, Propietarios, y Comerciantes and of Municipalidad de Acapusco; meeting in Teotihuacán and Municipalidades de Tecama and Temascalapa; outlaw band in frontiers of Hidalgo State; Reglamento de Rondas sent to Chalco; bandido Ramón Díaz captured near Texcoco; Coatlinchán; Tlalnepantla; Juan Francisco; train ride to Mexico; meeting with Contratista García concerning uniforms.

Horses requisitioned by Escuadrón Mercado from Hacienda de San Nicolás Peralta; pasture rights of José María Martínez de la Concha; Administrador Carmona; Colonel Limón; Domingo Palacios; Jefe político Telésforo T. Cañedo.

Request for leave; Motín de Las Cruces.

Recommendation for Miguel Ramírez, Administrador de Rentas in Otumba, suggested by José Adalid: Terreros.

Request to Legislature for authorization for settlement of boundaries of States of México, Morelos, and Hidalgo; advice against resigning.

Entry of Colonel Gómez' troops into Jajalpa; request for news from Tenango.

Resignation for personal reasons from position as district Administrador de Rentas.

Request for order allowing requisition of funds, repayable by the State; Compañía de Supremos Poderes exhausted by march in rain; request for State troops; El Valle; Temascaltepec; orders of Colonel Gómez; Jesús Zoto.

Letter to Manuel Terreros by English Packet; a caution against optimism over end of bandit menace; Servia de la Mora; transmittal of article from paper with biographical notes on unnamed author; loss of employment as Administrador at Tlalnepantla; uprising with Luis León in Tulancingo and with Negrete in Puebla; refuge in Tenango; Estévez.

Inventory of hacienda property; examination of records; Contribución personal.

Decree modifying the Contribución personal; interest in public education.

Reëstablishment of public order; Fermín Galarza; robberies along road from Totolapan to Juchi; meetings of the veintenas of Totolapa[n]; recent robberies by bandits from Puebla and Tlaxcala; Jesusita Velázquez; change in law on Contribución personal to benefit public school teachers; Gracia.

Recommendation for Miguel Ramírez, Administrador de Rentas in Otumba.

Troops sent to Venta de Jájalpa; hospitality of Desidoro de la Torre.

Tax law sent to Isidro; Lozano appointed Ministro de Gobernación; Manuel Saavedra appointed with leave from Congress; resignation of Iglesias as Minister of Justice; letter of Carrasco invalid; negotiations with Lic. Cejudo.

Request for search of state archives to see whether the Viceroy sent to the Jefe político de Toluca the Law of the Cortes de España of April 19, 1821. No. 6, Calle de la Moneda.

Property abandoned by Rafael Parra during the Guerra de tres años and during the French Intervention; service as Administrador de Rentas of Zumpango de la Laguna when it was part of the Distrito Federal; area made part of State [of Mexico]; new appointments by Martínez de la Concha; appointment recommended.

Request for reintatement of his father as Administrador de Rentas, Distrito de Jilotepec; earlier discharge for refusing to support the Empire; entry of French troops; recommendation by Vicente (?).

Resignation of Administrador de Rentas de Jilotepec; recommendation for Manuel S. Tapia, father of Alejandro; support of the Republic; replacement upon occupation of Toluca.

Illness of Prieto with heart trouble; Credencial del P. Campa; Government of Querétaro repudiated; personal animosities in the Congress; the Las Cruces uprising compared to that of Servín de la Mora in Michoacán.

Bandit band Distrito de Yautepec, refuge in Distrito de Chalco; orders to Jefe político in Yautepec and Morelos.

Proposed resignation of Adrián Varela, Administrador de la Aduana de Jilotepec; recommendation for Alejandro Tapia; vacation in La Asunción with Auza, Berriozábal, and Castellanos.

Decree modifying Contribución personal; accounts of Administrador found in disorder; Gómez Gallardo; failure of effort to capture Bartolo Santillán; arrival of militia.

Request for help of a judge in opposing calumnies by personal enemies.

Modification of Contribución personal sent to Municipalidades.

Request for financial aid; Secretario Fuentes Muñiz named as reference; service to the Republic and Independence since the Revolución de Ayutla.

Illness and death in family; tertulia in Montiel's house; employment as editor by Ignacio Cumplido for the Siglo 19; publication of La crónica del viaje suspended; copies of El Siglo transmitted with article on property; Inés Flores accused of witchcraft in town of Goacalco, Jurisdicción de Verdiguel and Aguirre de la Barrera; Mariano and Nicolás Palma.

Destruction of Chávez band; troop movement to Tejupilco; return of stolen horses to owners; Jesusita.

Instructions from Jefe político José María Verdiguel y Fernández on change in the Contribución personal; use of funds for public education; payment of teachers; decree of October 27.

Transmittal of circular to all governors; bequest by Cueva for distribution to poor rumored; penury of widow, Sra. García, 10 Calle de las Ratas; help solicited; penury and illness of Sra. María Pantret.

Recommendation for Luis G. Lozano for position of Contador de la Administración de rentas; suggestion of Jefe político de Texcoco.

Hacienda de Monte de Pozo and Los Morales leased by Ignacio Guerrero; hostility of local towns.

Report on visit to the area forwarded; extra funds requested for Municipalidad de Texcaltitlán; school closed; girls' school under quarantine; Colonel Limón's success against rebels; funds for Instituto and Periódico oficial.

Troubles at La Asunción by floods and bandits; presence of Cañedo for several months requested in Distritos de Chalco and Texcoco; Flores; involvement in elections; Juan Francisco; Saavedra to be Ministro de Gobernación against strong opposition; effort of Sra. Ortuño to delay payment of debt; sale of Hacienda de Santa Rita suggested; wheat harvest; Tejocote; Troje; Zacatlales; Aguapetlayuca (?); San Bartolo; corn planting; gift of cattle by Ignacio Mañón; sale of wheat; Auza's and Castellanos' visit; Antonino; Barajas.

Change in collection of the Contribución personal.

Mail missent via Morelia; decree No. 124, May 1.

Recommendation for Francisco Olmos; experience as Visitador de las oficinas recaudadoras del fondo de fortificaciones in 1862 and Sub-director of the Colegio del Tecpam de Santiago; loss of property to robbers.

Co-operation between Jefes políticos in Yautepec and Jonacatepec and that of Chalco against bandits; legislative approval sought for settlement of boundary problem with México; opposition of Peña and Portilla.

Request for meeting on use of funds for a hospicio de pobres; “amigos de París”; hospitality of Lazcano family; recommendation for Administrador Trinidad Murguía; plan to see Sebastián [Lerdo?] about Tepic business.

Burial of parents in Monumento de Los Ángeles; return to Santa Inés; Cornelio Prado; request for recommendation to Yáñez; address: Ricardo Sainz, México, Libro Mayor; deteriorating conditions in Morelos State.

Recommendation for Urbano F. Cejudo.

Recommendation for merchant Quiroz; difficulties facing commercial enterprises.

State boundary problem sent to Legislature.

Request for help in obtaining payment of tuition by Lic. Luis Rivera Melo for his children's education.

Orders for Juan Francisco to lend aid to Cañedo in Chalco; Tlalmanalco's aid solicited against bandits; report of election as elector in Zula; elections in Tlalnepantla, Zumpango, Cuautitlán, Jilotepec, and Otumba; political situation in Texcoco controlled by dissidents and bandit leaders; meeting of railroad committee.

Nomination as elector after being declared citizen by the Ayuntamiento; report to the Tesorería General.

Recommendation for Mauro F. de Córdoba in suit brought by citizens of Chimalhuacán involving the Hacienda de Costitlán.

Purchase of land in Lomas de Tacubaya for establishing a cemetery; governor's permission published in El Distrito Federal, No. 40; sale of shares; presidency of the Junta Directiva offered to Riva Palacio, with the Archbishop as Honorary President; other members: Mariano Yáñez, José María Andrade, Manuel Dublán, Del Valle, and José Salazar Ilarregui (the land owner); arrangements with the railroad left to Valle and Isidoro de la Torre; land owner Luis Méndez; shipment of materials from England to Veracruz.

Recommendation for Antonio Gilly in dispute with the Administrador de Rentas de Chalco over payment of the tax on leased estate.

Modification of Contribución personal; “motín de Lubianos”; surrender of Cabecilla Chávez; report on other suspects; report on incident at Hacienda de Lubianos.

Appearance of Peña and Portillo ordered by the State Legislature; report in Periódico Oficial, No. 30; Ayuntamiento de Mapaxtlán dissolved for offensive actions.

Visit to Chalco, Ayotzingo, Temamatla, Ixtapaluca to review the veintena system of guarding the roads; new trip to Municipalidades de Ameca, Ozumba, Tepetlixpa, and Juchitepec; robbery on Morelos boundary; robbery at Los Arcos, taking mules and sugar from Ameca merchants; Distrito de Jonacatepec; property recovered at Matamoros; fight between robbers and Fuerza de Seguridad Pública at Atlihuayan near Yautepec; claim of Governor of Morelos denied; transmittal of list of electors chosen in election; Borja; separation of Portilla from Morelos; Guillermo Tirado; visit of Borja to Juchi; losses in mail; order concerning public instruction.

Complaint against employment of Colonel Carreto in the capital garrison though exiled by Juárez as a supporter of the Empire; same complaint against Feliciano Olvera, Administrador de rentas in Temascaltepec; his earlier service as peajero in Real del Monte for the Empire; same complaint against Cosío, Administrador de Rentas in Chalco, replacing “patriota consumado” Olaguíbel; service with Empire in peaje de Ayotla and in Los Llanos de Apam; work in Aduana de Teotihuacán criticized; criticism of Fermín Viniegra, deputy to the State Legislature of Hidalgo; service as Subprefecto de Actopan; praise for Santillán in Tula; criticism of José Madrid and Antonio Madrid for defense of the Plaza de México; trial of Jose Madrid for service as Comandante del Resguardo in Guanajuato; present employment of José Madrid as Contador in the Aduana de Tlalnepantla; nepotism in government offices; Receptor de Naucalpan.

Difficulty of finding tax collectors for the impuesto personal.

Inspection visits; Berriozábal in Mexico; Josefina; letters to Lic. Trejo and Guerra.

Economic conditions in Tenancingo criticized; rivalry with Tecualoya; lawlessness in Zumpahuacán and San Pablo; power in hands of chiefs of the indígenas; unpunished crimes.

Arrival of Nicolás F. Cañedo; inspection visits to Ozumba, Tepetlixpa, Ameca, and Ayapango to regulate the veintenas.

Criticism of José Francisco Cosío.

Confusion in official duties; Administrador de Rentas de Zumpango; modification of the Contribución personal; danger of wrecking the primary education system; opposition to the alcabala; difficulty of administering new tax system; Law of April 10.

Difficulty of administering the new law; schools closed for lack of funds; opposition to games of chance; meetings delayed in Costitlán and Chimalhuacán; letter to Córdoba in Tepexpán.

Defense against criticism of his administration by the Administrador de Rentas; collection of taxes; primary education; relations with the Ayuntamientos.

Meeting with Manuel Gordillo Reynoso; contribution of $200 to association.

Circular 34; correction of padrones; collection of Contribución personal; punishment provided under Circular 35; records required by Circular 37; archives earlier than 1867 missing; Circular No. 38; collection of alcabala under Circular 39.

Publication of first volume of Historia de Jalapa y revoluciones del Estado de Veracruz; its importance to the History of Mexico; biographies of famous men in New Spain up to 1815; pictures of buildings and historical places; Cerro de Borrego; house where Treaty of Córdoba was signed; dependence in past on histories by foreigners; autograph letters of famous men; price set at $6; address: Santo Domingo No. 6.

Criticism of Juez Lic. Teófilo Sánchez; sheltering of criminals; opposition of Municipalidad de Nopaltepec to act of Legislature annexing it to Axapusco; state representative sent to Lic. Gómez Pérez; defense of Sánchez supplied by the Asociación gregoriana; sentence to loss of pay and to payment of damages; help rendered by Sánchez Solís and Leocadio López; request for leniency.

Illness of Tovar; Club Juárez; delivery of letter to Juárez; Liceo; $200 delivered to Tovar; effort to set up a school for girls in the capital; recommendation for “mis indios de Malinalco.”

Request for leniency in sentence; case sent to the Supremo Tribunal.

Return from La Asunción; visit from Juan Francisco and Cañedo; center of bandit activity placed in Chalco and Juchi; Cañedo to reconnoiter near Juchi, Ozumba, and Ameca; district police to visit San Gregorio, Chalco, Zula, and Ayotzingo; wheat harvest; barley; necessity for extending loan to Sra. Ortuño.

Need for personal changes in his office; votes bought by Gutiérrez in effort to favor General Díaz in election of governor; Berriozábal.

Plans for the Palacio de Justicia; cost: $5,000; agreement with the Palacio Municipal; “proyectos del cipres” sent to priest in charge of work on Iglesia del Carmen via Fuentes Muñiz. Address: Ex-convento de San Diego, viviendo No. 12.

Request for intervention on behalf of suit to recover back salary of her husband; appointment as Jefe político, District of Sultepec, under Governor Contreras; replacement by Martínez de la Concha; restrictions on back pay; past difficulties with pay of husband; work as elementary school teacher; details of illness.

Program of patrolling Morelos boundary to prevent robberies; weakness of veintena system; threats to District of Jonacatepec, Cuautla, and Yautepec; patrol of dragones placed in Juchitepec, Ozumba, and Ameca; Patricio Cardoso left in command; plan to patrol Texcoco and Otumba; payment assisted by the Municipalidades; Gendarmerie lieutenant left at other points; Corporal Petronilo Cortés; co-operation with troops from Cuernavaca in search of the montes between the two states; Leiva; false alarm at Hacienda de Cuatepec; help of the Celadores de Cárcel.

Warning not to discharge employees for working in favor of votes for Gutiérrez and Porfirio Díaz; other justification for discharge required.

Request for aid in restoring pension as Lieutenant Colonel; Address: Callejón de Santa Clara No. 11, home of Antonio Roque, Profesor de Dentista.

Transmittal of plans for railroad; copies to go to Districts of Toluca and Temascaltepec; preparation of a Decreto de Concesión del Ferrocarril; road to Mescala to be reconnoitered by Ingeniero Goruch (Gorsuch?); use of navigation up to Barra de Zacatula; single road linking Toluca with the Pacific; interest of Rosecran[s] of the United States in the scheme; loan from Castañeda and Nájera; need for selling hacienda; debt to Berriozábal; wealth anticipated from the Mina de Guatimotzin.

Complaint of poverty; request for appointment as Judge in Texcoco.

Legal representation assumed for Davison during latter's absence in England; suit for collection of tax on hardware store in Chalco; destruction of ovens by order of Agustín Cruz; papers from subreceptor in Tlalmanalco; danger of sale of goods by auction; request for continuance of the suit.

Request for leniency toward Francisco Cossío; ineligibility as bondsman; ineligibility of Parres; return to La Asunción for elections; politicking in Chalco and Texcoco; wheat harvest.

Recommendation for schoolmate at the Instituto Literario de Toluca, Faustino Legorreta.

Approval of legal papers by the judge; cuenta de albaceazgo; property of Godoy; Doña Manuelita; aid of Martínez de la Torre; sale of corn in Cuautitlán at $3 per load; purchase by speculators at twenty reales a load; concern of Nicolás in Cuamatla; letters to Gregorio Jiménez and to Salgado for collection of rent and help with cattle; illness in family; Guadalupita; Leonor; dysentery.

Peaceful conditions in district; escort requested by Manuel Alas Marmolejo; Comandante Miguel Muñoz sent; Comandante Vicente Vargas; Quesada; victory in elections anticipated.

Comandante Alejandro Millán appointed chief of the Guardia Nacional de San Pablo, San Gaspar, Zumpahuacán, and surrounding area; departure for Malinalco and Ocuilan; Coatepec de las Batias, District of Tenango; Señora Alvear; Zumpahuacán.

Delays in reform of the Contribución personal; loss of population by town because of widespread poverty; refusal to sign up for census out of fear of army draft.

Political feelings in Texcoco; antagonistic feelings in Ixtapam, Papalotla, and Chimalhuacán; owner of Hacienda de Costitlán; suspicions of Lic. Víctor Pérez; funds for public education.

Problems involved in reform of the Contribución personal; establishment of primary schools; meeting with Presidente Municipal de Huixquilucan.

Pursuit of bands at Mancilla; payment of money involved in elections.

Court decisions involving Cervantes, Querétaro; establishment of telegraph subscription to El Libro rojo.

Modification of the Contribución personal; loss of prestige for the tax in April; increase in suits for collection of tax.

Difficulty of collecting tax without penalties for delinquency; criticism from Cuautitlán.

Lic. Agustín Borges recommended for position as Juez de Letras in Otumba; transfer from Juzgado de Tulancingo; discharge of Juez de Letras Sánchez Güido; Rebollar suggested as replacement; experience of Manuel Flores Alatorre as Juez del ramo criminal in Mexico after law studies in Colegio de San Gregorio; plans for collection of the Contribución personal.

Departure for Oculan (Ocuilan?); citation of authorities of Coatepec, District of Tenango; sermon by Padre Fernando López denouncing “el catecismo político de Pizarro” and excommunicating all who teach or learn it; opposition to use of the book; removal of the priest.

Request for retention of Lic. Pinal in Juzgado de Letras in Otumba.

Support of request of Antonio Canalizo for free education in the state college for one of the “pobres hijos de la Baja California.”

Poverty of the Territorio de la Baja California, represented by Canalizo in Congress; lack of educational opportunities; practice of giving children in adoption to American citizens in San Francisco de la Alta California in return for their education; dangers caused by this influence of the United States; request for each governor to provide education for one student in local schools.

Incident in Ixtlahuaca; escort for Alas Marmolejo under command of Comandante Muñoz; supervision of elections.

Soldiers sent to La Gavia, Ayala, and Teburibi (?); arrival of bandit group at Ranchería de Ocoyotepec under Santillán and departure toward Ixtlahuaca and Ocoyotepec; suspected refuge in Monte Alto and San Bartolo Naucalpan; Castañeda; use of gendarmerie.

Departure from Ayotzingo for Monte de Milpa Alta; Lieutenant Zavala y Cardoso and Captain Cortés sent to apprehend rebels and conduct prisoner Lobaco (Lobato?) to Tlalmanalco.

Supplies for Colonel Gómez.

Request for aid in recovering horse from Colonel Cañedo.

French instruction; reading of El hombre que ríe and Memorias de Maximiliano, receipt of gifts; Mañón family; Soledad; Guadalupe.

Payment of Contribución federal excused by law cited; Law of May 7, 1862; Law of December 16, 1861.

Appointment as agent for the Institute [in Toluca]; assistance of President and Ministers in providing materials; zoology books; excavations in Zampango for drainage project; departure to look for [archæological] artifacts; Lic. José Portillo recommended to Fuentes Muñiz; Rafael Parra recommended for Administrador de rentas in Zumpango.

Failure of mission to Santacilia; Barajas; influence of Romero; relations with Seward; Sra. Rodríguez Puebla; legislative action favoring the Barthon case; congressional discussion of modification of Law of February 4, 1861 for payment of commercial imposts; effect in the Distrito Federal; withdrawal of Parada from legal case; state dinner given for Seward.

Promise to take up with the Ministro de Hacienda the case of the Ex-convento de San Francisco; interest of Juárez in the case.

Charges of conspiracy disproven; request for reinstatement in Batallón Seguridad Pública or in some other position; service in the recent war.

Repulse of bandit attack on the garrison; defense by Tenorio and Pacheco; leader identified as from Tenango; Pursuit by Colonel Figueroa; cries used by attackers: “Viva el Imperio,” “Viva Negrete,” “Viva el ejército”; reinforcements awaited.

Support of the Liceo Juárez and Instituto de Morelos.

Pedro Laguna elected deputy over competitor Lic. Francisco Olvera; influence of lawyer from Texcoco, Juez de Letras de Teotihuacán; support of Lic. Antonio Zimbrón, Francisco Velázquez, and Vicente Zamora; opposition of Laguna to the Intervention despite service as Regidor de escuelas on an appointment by Feliciano Rodríguez; writer's service as Juez primero conciliador; replacement of Jacinto Espejel; schools founded in Belén and San Pablo; school in San Marcos; improvements anticipated.

Meetings with Cañedo and Berriozábal; visit of Jefes políticos from Texcoco and Otumba; use of telegraph.

Request for favorable action on request of Cura Luis Ogazón of Sultepec (brother of Pedro [Ogazón] of the Supreme Court) for return of silver taken from the church or repayment of its value.

Receipt of papers from Europe; books for Dublán; letter from D. Pedro; boxes of archives to be sent to Lerdo; arrival of packet; M. Darán; letter of Parada; letter for Srta. Escandón; Agustín; statue completed by Noreña; lettering of the names; construction of stone wall; the Isles; Gómez y Pérez; wheat agreement delivered by González for Toluca; death of Manuel Mier in Tacubaya; Antonio; burial in San Diego.

Resignation of office; Major Alejandro Millán; Colonel Figueroa; Santa Ana; Tecualo (?) bandits in Santa Ana and Tecualo reported at Hacienda de la Loma, Ixtapan, and Tonatico; report to Coatepec Harinas and Major Vargas; abduction of teacher at San Martín by sublevados of Malinalco; bad judgement of Padre López in peaching against the catecismo político; need for Federal troops; approval of Quejada, Curril; return of parolees to trouble-making; election of Rafael Espinosa as deputy, with Román Estrada as substitute.

Appearance of pronunciados in Llano de San Alejo reported by Comandante Vargas of Tonatico; Pilcaya; request for troops under Comandante Muñoz; Tenancingo; message from Medina.

Answer in Diario oficial to attacks by the Monitor; request for publicity to his answer.

Wheat contracts; Josefina; Antonio Mier; mail for France; P. Camacho; the Islas; efforts of Noreño to have statue ready for placing at San Fernando; Alcaraz; receipt of box from Europe with Vichy salts for Joaquín, hat for Sra. Escandón, and books for Dublán (value, $272); Pedro; Terreros' books; bill for Lerdo; Teatro nacional; Padre Serafín from Texcoco.

Departure for Coatepec and Ixtapán in search of bandits; appointment as Juez de primera instancia.

Petition of Indians of Villa del Valle for surrender of twelve ranchos of the Hacienda de la Estancia; complaint against brother Ramón; record of 100-year ownership of the land; heavy debts against the hacienda; end of work as Apoderado General; service as Director de la Juventud [teacher].

Report from Texcaltitlán; movement of Major Muñoz to Malinalco and Tenancingo; orders to go to Tonatico in search of bandits near San Alejo and Zacualpan.

Bandits pursued by Limón and Major Muñoz.

Agreement on existence of core of dissidents in the state; possibility of maintaining public order; need for federal troops; bandit trouble in Puebla State and in Querétaro; “Negocio de la Sierra.”

Incident in Salazar; troops sent by President; protection of the line.

Pronunciados reported on road to the Distrito [Federal].

Request of inhabitants of Hacienda San Nicolás Peralta and Hacienda Santa Catarina to become towns; appeal to state Legislature; danger of expulsion; Lic. Gabriel Islas.

Excesses committed by Noriega, León, and Piz[arro] in Tezontepec and departure toward Singuilucan; Hacienda de Tlahuelilpa troubled by bandit Sotero Lozano; robbery in Bojay; refuge in mountains between Tula and Actopan; request for Federal troops; withdrawal of patrol at Tlalnepantla.

Arrival of sublevados at the Hacienda de Atitalaquia; leader designated as Noriega; request for ammunition; need for troops or gendarmerie; guns and bayonets offered for sale.

Arrival of Lic. Carlos Cardona, Juez de primera Instancia; trouble with Rafael Izquierdo; letter for Limón.

Testimony of Ambrosio Rodríguez, son of Luis Rodríguez of Rancho de Chiluca; capture by Bartolo Santillán on Calacoaya road; Juan García identified; soldiers defeated at Tianguillo; theft of horses; defeat at El Cantadero; refuge in El Herno Viejo; escape of Santillán toward Ajusco; cavalry from Regiment of San Luis sent to Naucalpan; abduction of Camilo Velázquez.

Limón's pursuit of bandits to Guerrero State; return to Volcán; report from Cañedo in Jalatlaco; attack on patrol at Tianguillo; search in District of Tenancingo; C. Piña accused of drunkeness and firing gun in room of women; futile gambling raid by Uribe; Reglamento de los Gendarmes to be printed; favorable state of the treasury; article by Mejía not published; speech of Dávalos at the Instituto; warning against Otumba, Cuautitlán, and Jilotepec sent by Jefe político de Zumpango; Muñoz reported in Tenancingo and Coatepec.

Pursuit of bandits into interior of State of Hidalgo; withdrawal to protect district.

Request to Legislature to turn San Nicolás and Santa Catarina into towns; danger of being expelled; approval recommended.

Loan of $500 to Martínez de la Concha to help operate the state government; request for repayment; address: Avenue Montaigne 34, Paris.

Despersal of bandits by Colonel Cañedo and Major Martínez; horses at Tenería; aid of Guardia nacional; regulations of the Gendarmerie.

Success of troops sent from Tula and Actopan; operations in State of Hidalgo; Lieutenant Colonel Martínez.

Valle; success of Major Muñoz against bandits at Hacienda de Jalmolonga; capture of horses and weapons; pursuit of remnants in Coatepec; Almoloya.

Loss of letter in transit; reports received from archives; Valle; delay in collection of tax caused by uprising; pursuit of bandoleros by Comandante Muñoz at Palpa; business in Almoloya; Agustín González in Coatepec. Includes draft of reply, Toluca, December 20, 1869, unsigned; need to protect Almoloya and to disband auxiliary troops as soon as possible; Agustín González; prisoner taken by Muñoz to be tried; political prisoners to be tried by the District Judge; Colonel Valle. Embossed monogram: MRP.

Promise to co-operate with the Gendarmerie.

Promise to co-operate with the Gendarmerie; aid of Berriozábal.

Survey of land in dispute between town of Chimalhuacán and the owner of Costitlán; Chimalhuacán's side supported; aid of Linares.

Bandit activity in Tizayuca and Tolcayuca; theft of horses; aid requested of Cuautitlán and Tlalnepantla; activity related to effort of towns to reclaim land from landowners on authority of the Constitution of 1857.

New arrangements for pay and uniform of troops; Colonel Cañedo; involvement of politics in plans, as in Puebla, San Luis [Potosí], and Michoacán; purchase of rifles and carbines. Tiburcio No. 19, México.

Meeting of Junta general de accionistas; election of Riva Palacio President of the Board. Includes draft of reply, unsigned, accepting position.

Letters for Barajas and Escalante; incidents in Puebla and San Luis; discussion of proposed uniforms; advantages of the Henry rifles over the proposed Remighton (Remington?) rifles; example of the success of Escobedo with 250 soldiers at San Joaquín over 2000 at Zacatecas; success of Dávila(?) over Miramón at Querétaro when Miramón had just defeated 8000 men under Corona and Régules; search of the Ciudadela for equipment; departure for Chalco to help Nicolás; his ill success at Texcoco; Piz (?) in La Blanca. Includes telegram from Cañedo on failure at La Blanca.

Surrender of office by Sánchez Güido; delay in arrival of successor Licea; harm to administration of justice; difficulty of Rebollar in handling office; interim appointment of Manuel Flores Alatorre recommended; election of Zúñiga as Síndico of the Ayuntamiento; complaint of Antonino Morán of the Hacienda de Chapingo; efforts of people from Santa Catarina to persuade his workers to stop work and join them; arbitration refused on advice of Zúñiga; effort to withdraw order not to enter the woods; spread of “ideas de comunismo”; investigation of Zúñiga recommended.

Reports of disorders at Tepotzotlán; Joaquín; need for troops at Zumpango; Felipe; troops provided by the Ministro de la Guerra from Cuautitlán; infantry sent from Mexico; Antonio; Bustillo.

Uprising in Zumpango; aid given Tizayuca by citizens of San Mateo of the Municipalidad de Tepotzotlán; elections influenced by circulars with falsehoods; irregular use of the ballots; election of his opponents; new president of the Ayuntamiento accused of French sympathies; collection of Contribución personal; unpopularity of public education.

Departure for Almoloya; Major Muñoz to remain under orders of Tenorio at Malinalco and Jalpa; Captain Mijara to go to Tetecala and Palpa with cavalry; Captain Mazo at Malinalco; use of veintenas; search for Oropeza.

Friendship with Lic. Rivera Melo; education in the Colegio Militar; service with the Imperial Army; request for employment.

Meeting with Juan Francisco, Nicolás, and Ulibarri; Rafael Gómez's service with Flores; Antonio Villaseñor, to command the troops at Otumba; Carranza; comparison of the Gendarmerie with the French; meeting with merchants and landowners.

Recommendation for Ambrosio Molina; education in Colegio militar; military career, including service with Miramón; fight against French at San Lorenzo; participation in siege of Querétaro and Mexico under Vicente Riva Palacio; experience in Secretaría de Gobierno; appointed Prefecto in Temascaltepec by Martínez de la Concha, and removed by Zimbrón.

Efforts of Domínguez and Islas to start uprisings in Otumba, Pachuca, Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán, and Zumpango against the haciendas; fight expected in Tizayuca by Kampfner.

Request for description of state forces for order; precautions taken in Zumpango, Cuautitlán, and Tlalnepantla.

Departure for Almoloya; messages via Major Muñoz.

Plan of Martínez de la Torre and Salgado for the sub-dividing of Parangueo; meeting with Nicolás; provisions of will.

Negotiations over supply of cloth for uniforms; Barajas.

Interest in railroad construction; news of Mexico State published locally; regulations for the Guardias Municipales; plan to write a History of Mexico for elementary schools; Fuentes Muñiz; Ignacio Mañón.

Opposition to movement to replace the Jefe político with the writer; service under Martínez [de la Concha]; disagreement with Zimbrón; González; deterioration of local political conditions.

Visits to Juan José Baz; train from Apizaco; gathering of crowd to cheer Baz; use of firecrackers; speech from Pacheco's balcony; Juanes; burial of Don Benito as Gran Maestro de la Logia de los Masones; burial in San Fernando; $30,000 voted his widow by Congress; his name entered among the Heros; his children to have free education; Luisita ill; Isabel Pesado; Isidoro; Soledad; Manuel Cuevas; death of mother of Carmelita Godoy.

Uprising of Indians against the haciendas in Hidalgo State; Indians besieged by troops of Kampfner and Roldán in Tezontepec.

Departure for La Asunción; aid requested by Juan Francisco and Cañedo in organizing the Fuerzas rurales raised by the haciendas; payment of a debt; alarm caused by Indian uprisings at Mezquital; hope to avoid recurrence in Chalco and Texcoco.

Statue of Guerrero in plaza approved by the Cabildo; Alcaraz to take order to the Governor.

Measures taken to prevent uprising of Indians; pursuit of Francisco Islas, ex-Administrador de Casablanca, by Jefe político of Zumpango and by Federal troops; effort to incite Indians against haciendas; lack of precautions in Temoaya and in Hidalgo State; property markers returned to their places by Germán and the Jefe político of Actopan; Pepe Marín offered as candidate; efforts of Tagle to collect tax from the Hacienda de Temoaya; Terreros; request for letter to Antonino to drop the case.

Abuses during elections for the Ayuntamiento; criticism of Juan N. Popoca; effort of Daniel Rojo to have land titles printed and sale to owners forced; Llave, friend of Popoca; undue influence brought against President of the Ayuntamiento; meeting with Mateo Mauricio; Compañero Cruz.

Warning of the dangers of organizing a gendarmerie; Barajas; Escalante. Includes note from Josefina; Lupe; Luisita's illness; Pepe; Antonino; Pancho; Fanta; Concha; Maños.

Appointment of the head of the 6a línea and general orders; hopes of capturing Oropesa; Captain Martínez; Lic. [Baso?] y Cejudo; Lic. Bernal; Nacho (?); Ramona; continuation to Otumba; Trejo; continuing questions about land ownership blamed for discontent; different attitude on part of landowners recommended; meeting of merchants and hacendados in Chalco.

Request for favorable decision in legal case.

Difficulty with Escalante; completion of organization of section of Gendarmerie; qualifications of members; work continued in Texcoco and Otumba; incident at Fábrica de Miraflores; Berriozábal; Juan Francisco; Nicolás.

Introduction to Miguel González for discussion of the matter of purchase of uniforms for the Gendarmerie.

Plan of the Ministro de Hacienda to close commercial deposits outside the capital and require goods to pass through the capital; destruction of Hacienda de Agüegüetes; vigilance required at state boundaries; reports to Administrador de Rentas de México.

Letter to Albarrán; Major Luis Ortiz in Amatepec and Tlatlaya; danger caused by indolence of young people in the villages.

Preparations for uprising in Hacienda de Casablanca, Mezquital, Tezontepec, and part of State of Mexico; danger in Municipalidades de Hueypoxtla and Tequisquiac; destruction of mojones; help of carabineros of San Luis; recall by Comandancia militar of the Distrito Federal.

Explanation of the Hacienda de Temoaya affair; division of the old State of Mexico in 1862; increase in the Distrito Federal; decree of June 7, 1862; difficulties caused by return to earlier status; decree No. 1, Congreso del Estado, December 18, 1867; lack of records for intervening years; temporary regulations issued by himself and Martínez de la Concha.

Request from Colonel Loera and the Governor of Hidalgo for aid on the state line; Tezontepec; arrival in Texcoco; defeat of Noriega's band; death of Noriega; Cabrioto in Tezontepec; Tagle; return of Indians to peaceful pursuits at Tezontepec; agreement of hacendados to establishment of rurales; gendarmes from Toluca. Includes telegram from Antonino Tagle in Pachuca, received in Ometusco, December 29, 1869, verifying death of Antonio Noriega.

Uprising in San Luis Potosí; opposition to habit of starting uprisings; need for respect for laws.

Difficulties in erecting the statue [of Guerrero] in Jardín de San Fernando; Agustín González; Joaquín; A. Mier; artillery escort; new calendars; Garay; Calle del Relox; pneumonia patient; Montiel; Riverita; Josefina; Atilano.

Meeting with González in Cuautitlán; visit to Marín; Lic. Francisco Barrena; brother José [Barrena?] proposed for position; Cruz in Tezontepeque; incident in Temoaya reported to Jefe político of Actopan; destruction of landmarks; intervention with Tagle on collection of tax recommended; Viniegra; Barajas; delivery of letters.

Meeting of merchants and hacendados; establishment of gendarmerie; support of Tablada of Hacienda de Metepec; horses furnished; weapons for the rurales; visit of Nicolás to Chalco and Texcoco; funds requested.

Ignacio Dosamantes recommended for vacant position of Jefe político in Cuautitlán; erection of statute of Guerrero; election of writer as regidor in the Ayuntamiento.

Erection of the statue [of Guerrero].

Request for leniency toward Julián Jiménez, in prison for gambling; poverty of his family.

Mañón new Jefe político of state; Josefina; Peón Rejil; Altamirano; Pepe Pinsón's visit to Vicente; difficult parturition of Isabel Pesado; death of José Elguero; death of Fermín (Germán) []da; publication of “Folleto titulado Jardín de las Esperides [?]”; departure of Seward on special train; return of Juan José; elections; victory of government; illness of Luisita and Pacheco; Fanta; with added note by Josefina; Manuel; the Colines; Riva; Vicente; Rivera.

Begins: Hablemos de politica. Possibly in hand of Vicente Riva Palacio. Reference to Bust of Maximilian; la Águila de nuestra República; Casa de Moneda; “mercados del Palacio Nacional”; El congreso de 69; Circo de Charini; suicide of Englishman; Comonfort; Zuloaga; exile; Arista; Juárez; Negrete in the capital; zarzuelistas; suicide of María Froment; Compañía Iturbide; Sánchez Osorio; Lerdo; arrival of body of Manuel Doblado; Tratado de la Soledad; Obispo de León; Teatro de Chavini; plaza de toros; Toluca; Narciso Mendieta; Atenógenes Carrasco. Apparently part of a speech, but the tone is immoderate.