Political leader. Born 1803 and died 1880 in Mexico City. Educated as lawyer. Offices held: Primer Regidor del Ayuntamiento de México (1829), deputy to the Congreso de la Unión (first elected 1833), Minister of Justice, Minister of Hacienda (June-Aug. 1848), thrice Governor of the State of Mexico (1849, 1857, 1871), Director del Nacional Monte de Piedad. Imprisoned 1852-1854 during final presidency of Antonio López de Santa Anna. Named Emperor Maximilan's defender in May 1867. Worked to develop Mexico's law enforcement system, roads, railways, and industry.
For a complete chronology of Mariano Riva Palacio, see Part 1: Introduction to this guide.
The collections pertains to the governance of Mexico at federal, state, and local levels, to management of various institutions and haciendas, to social and economic conditions in Mexico, and to the activities of Mariano Riva Palacio and many other well-known figures of 19th century Mexico, plus documents relating to the settlement of the estate of Vicente Guerrero. Other names prominent in the collection are Juan Álvarez, Mariano Arista, Ignacio Comonfort, Atilano Sánchez Garayo, and Antonio López de Santa Anna.
This page presents Part 4: 1847-1848 of the collection guide. To access other parts of the guide see Related Material.
Arrangement is primarily chronological, with items numbered in accordance with the published guide:
Mariano Riva Palacio Collection, 1716-1880, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
The item level description of this guide follows the published calendar
Recovery of debt from Juzgado de Capellanías discussed with Antonio Carvajal; Agustín Pámanes.
End of revolt in Querétaro; opposition of the
Long illness in Chalco; Colín.
Notice of academic procession for opening of school.
Legal decision by Madrid against Pedro González y García; Lic. Antonio Rebollar.
Legal business taken to García Serralde; vain efforts of Barrientos; Covarrubias; Promotoría; Victoriano; efforts to help Tomás; Villar; Decreto sobre Ocupaciones de manos muertas; danger of revolt.
Departure of Navarro to care for his family; Ministro de Justicia.
Death of his father; obituary in local paper; acts of Congress on mortmain property; Falacon; Mariano Minor; Herrera; Noriega; Cincunegui; Flores.
Appointment of new time for meeting, to allow attendance by Riva Palacio. Also signed Mariano Gálvez.
Request for help in placing cousin Agustín Godoy in San Gregorio; aid of Mariano Minor; curriculum;
Study of
Agitation of Indians of Santa Cruz over efforts of Esteban Garduña to alienate the alms given to the image of Santiago at the Church of Santo Cristo del Señor del Cerrito; Ocuyla; Juez de Letras de Ixtlahuaca. Congratulations on appointment as Governor. Date is evidently an error. Addressed to Toluca, 1849? 1857?
Plan for tombstone for father's grave; political optimism of Riva Palacio.
Arrival of General Garay; arrival of General Patterson (?) in Tampico with' troops; intelligence channels.
Plan for erection of monument at father's grave; Manuelita; Manuel Echeverría; departure of Gregorio Mier.
Transcript of baptismal certificate of Juana Clementina Luisa Warmuth y Muñoz. Parents: José Warmuth and Mariana Muñoz. Padrinos: Enrique Munzenstein and Juana Clementina Luisa Raillard. Reference to: Dr. Manuel Ignacio de la Orta; José María Sánchez Barquera; Examinador Sinodal del Arzobispado.
Request for interview at his own house, No. 2, Calle de Cadena, on account of illness. Includes draft of reply.
Thanks for financial assistance to children Juanita and Manuel; debt of Manuel Ruiz Gutiérrez; Ríos; hope of collecting debt through Sra. Quiteria, Hacienda de Santa Lucía; need for firewood; character of Manuel; appointment to new office.
Request for financial aid; sale of furniture.
Postponement of interview; inspection of jails by the Tribunal de la Guerra; Nava.
Payment of
Resignation from the Dirección de Colonización e Industria to allow time for duties as Diputado al Congreso General.
Inscription for father's tomb; payment by Nicanor Beistegui; tuition for Agustín; concern over public affairs; Lacunza.
Plan of the Soberano Congreso de la Nación to move to Tlalpan; attendance of all
Explanation of circular calling for attendance at meetings of the Soberano Congreso General.
Concern over family of Riva Palacio; dangers of civil war in the capital; Blas Zamora; illness of Guadalupita.
Letter from Santa Anna; his return from San Luis [Potosí?] to reassume presidency and nullify laws of January 11 and February 4, to aid the clergy; request for action by the Congress; $20,000,000 foreign loan deplored; itemization of sums taken from various Church offices by government representatives; delegation of clergy to meet Santa Anna: Dr. Vázquez and Dr. Aguirre; Casa de Santa Teresa.
Comments on Cabinet office offered by Santa Anna; danger of giving support to Santa Anna's policy; policy toward the mortmain property.
Protection of mine in Tepantitlán owned by Cayetano Díaz and Comandante de Escuadrón Alejandro Román.
Appointment of General Pedro Anaya; loan by the Diócesis de México; visit to Pedraza.
Request for letter to Agustín Pámanes reclaiming debt; increased expenses caused by the war; income from “la Agua,” and from Barrera; Lucio Padilla.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero.
Illness and death of Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero. Riva Palacio is addressed as
Effort to extend leave of absence from Congress; obstetrical illness of wife; Bermúdez' proposal at secret session; events in Veracruz; danger of enemy advance on the capital.
Illness of Guadalupe Hernández; meeting of the Junta in the Ministerio de Hacienda; difficulty in raising funds to continue the war; poverty of his family; Presidente Anaya; Pedraza; School of San Gregorio; money needed for pious works.
Return of Eduardo de la Llave from Acapulco; letter of recommendation to Juan Álvarez.
Rumors of revolution in Mexico; urgency of personal business affairs; return of family from the Capital; effort to extend leave of absence from the Congreso; progress of tombstone for father's grave; Béistegui; distress over military losses to the
Acceptance of resignation from the Comisión de Colonización.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero.
Death of María Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Account of death of Guadalupe Hernández; Archbishop Irisarri; Bishop Madrid (?); representatives of Orders of Merced, San Agustín, Carmen, and San Francisco; Don Francisco; Don Vicente.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández reported in
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández; Marianito; Vicentito; Sister Cayetana.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández; Mariano.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández; Doloritas; Manuelita; Pepe's illness with measles.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández.
Dolores Ochoa, daughter of Manuel Ochoa, recommended for employment in the Tobacco Factory; marriage to Captain Cirilo Morales of the Quinta Compañía del Batallón de la Libertad; service in the Ayuntamiento.
Request for aid in overcoming his criminal record and obtaining employment; care of his family.
Request for permit to leave school; policy of the Rector modified by the [military] situation.
Complication of family affairs, business, and patriotic duty; support of the war effort; request that Agustín be taken out of college and sent home; Salgado.
Father's property turned over to Dolores Castañeda de Pereda; Esteban Pereda; Doña Soledad. Receipt received June 30, 1849.
Local concern over invading army's approach to Puebla; plans of the Government; offer of sappers for emergency use; efforts of Goya to obtain a pardon.
Decree of April 30 alienating the Fondo Dotal; request for Riva Palacio to use his influence to avoid such excesses by the government.
Order for return of wagons to Francisco M. Calvo.
Death of Guadalupe Hernández; Igarito (Ignacio?) Castañón.
Case of the Decreto de fondos dotales to be decided in the Ministerio de Hacienda; Baranda; Anaya; school curriculum; study of German, Spanish, and logic in new school; instability of society.
Death of brother Francisco; Joaquina; Mariquita.
Death of father; debt paid by Prudencio Catalán; Vicente Hernández.
Request for advice from Riva Palacio. Embossed design: Shell with WEYNEN.
Appointment to the Comandancia General by the Supremo Gobierno.
Transmittal of
Arrival at the Hacienda de la Goleta; illness of Juana; trip to San Juan; Doloritas; Vicente; Carlos; Joaquinita; Francisco Velázquez; Luis Colín; Blas; Salomé Zamora; Manuel Cadena.
Arrangements by agent in London; bondholders; effect of change in government on loan; problem given to Congress by Ministro de Hacienda Antonio Haro and his successor Villamil; legal status of the loan; Grand Jury.
Invitation to birthday party, the 13th.
Request for $300 to pay debt.
Effort to obtain position of Receptor de México; resignation of Santitos (?) of Coyoacán; Aduana; letter for Anaya; pay owed by Yermo and Santibáñez.
Request for study of financial papers sent by Cura Dr. Rodríguez; Álvarez.
Request for advice; plan to leave the capital to a Gobernador if enemy troops enter it; Atilano.
Transmittal of order of the Comisión Permanente del Soberano Congreso General for continuing its sessions.
Transmittal of note on death of Dolores Puente de Retes and burial near Guadalupe Hernández de Guerrero at San Diego; Tomás Francisco Retes.
Payment of $52 debt owed to Catalán by Garibay; dispute over ownership of a shotgun, claimed by Pedro Rivera.
Transmittal of order calling for attendance at the Congress by all members.
Greetings of wife, Doloritas; Nicolás; Gregorito; el Caporal; Ibarra; Rosa; Scott's offer to Santa Anna for negotiations; Congress' approval sought by Santa Anna; Muñoz Ledo; Mejan (Rejón?); guerrilla activity in Veracruz; support of Álvarez.
Transmittal of order calling for all members of Congress to attend its sessions. Addressed to Riva Palacio in Chalco.
Message to La Rosa on the Decreto del 17 de Mayo; Baranda; plans of Haro to write to Rome criticized.
Account of rent paid for the house of Guerrero.
Efforts of
Letter from Mariano (?); state of siege in Mexico City; opposing troops' departure from Puebla; collection of forced loans; departure of Santa Anna for Coyoacán.
Collection of $250; payment by Atilano [Sánchez] and by Aguilera and Zúñiga, Luis Trillo; change in alcabala; widow of Nava; collection of rent; Villetes del Montepío.
Attendance at sessions of Congress urged; lack of quorum.
Absence from Congress explained by stomach ailment; conditions for return; condition of roads; travel by canoe; newspaper reports; Scott's camp in Puebla.
Transmittal of food, shoes, and money
Departure of Robredo for Michoacán; death of Erdozain; inability to hald sessions of Congress; danger of sessions turning into personal recriminations; problems facing the Congress; letter from Castillo.
Illness of Riva Palacio; ill weather; blame for closing Congress laid on Riva Palacio, Terreros, Flores, etc., by the
Rainy weather and hail; flood in Celaya; collection of forced loan; $50 charged Riva Palacio.
Exile of Lic. Vicente Bustos, Editor of
Letter from Lic. Manuel de Zea on rent of the house La Viga, property of Pablo Gómez Valdés; Bocanegra.
Arrival of cavalry at Río Frío; Llano del Guarda; civil government turned over to General Manuel de la Portilla; Canalizo's arrival at Venta de Córdoba; action at Puente de San Martín; abandonment of archives; advance on the capital; recovery of archives from Americans; Antonio Colín.
Accounts for music lessons; flowers for Doloritas. Includes pencil draft of letter by Riva Palacio to Juan de Dios Núñez, Asunción, July 19, 1847 on payment of $48 by Juan Rodríguez, and another to Juan Rodríguez Puebla, inquiring about movement of enemy troops; news brought by Álvarez; improvement of health; payment to the Panadería of Juan Núñez.
Plans for music concert; list of instruments. Includes pencil draft of reply, adjusting the time.
Receipt of $50 from Lacunza; negotiations with the U. S. left up to the President; efforts of government to convene Congress; alarm caused by collection of forced loans.
Plans to visit Asunción; illness of Tonchi (?); delay in Chalco.
Alarm caused in the capital by the advance of the
Plans of occupying troops; departure of friend for Toluca; receipt of $48.
Request for aid in collecting debt from Rafael Pliego; death of husband Cleofas Solís.
Removal of family to Toluca; settlement of
Illness of Martínez del Río in Moyaque (?).
Return of archives to Canalizo by U. S. troops; Tornel; return to San Martín; Hilario in Río Frío; Ángel Murillo; plans of the Ayuntamiento.
$25 paid to Mauricia Gómez; invasion route via Texcoco and Guadalupe; letters from Puebla; danger of controversy at meetings of the Congress; departure of M[] for Jalpan to meet Terreros; Miguel Cervantes Governor; departure of Gutiérrez for Guanajuato and Peña for Sinaloa.
Arrival of children; Ignacio (Herrera?); departure of U. S. troops from Puebla; Velázquez; Leocadia Lunas; Agustín Palacios.
Francisco Velázquez appointed executor of estate of Antonio Pezqueira; bond of Luis Colín.
Supposed plans for invasion of the city; San Hipólito; effect of recruiting drive; search for servants; efforts of Olaguíbel and Ibarra to conciliate parties in Congress; the campaign in New Mexico; death of Lebrija; Pacheco; Lombardo; Robles.
Troops at Puente de Texmeluca[n]; disinclination of the Ayuntamiento to wait for the invading forces.
News of the advance from Puebla received at Hacienda de Axalco; Vicente Zamora; Puente de Texmeluca[n]; Guevara; San Martín; Ángel Murillo; Santa Bárbara en Ixtapaluca. August 9: Advance of troops to Río Frío reported by Velázquez; San Martín; Blas Zamora; Hacienda de la Compañía; Río Prieto; Jalapa; Veracruz; contraguerrilla action. August 10: Attack on house of Vicario de Tlahuapa; capture of Frenchman and mill; General Álvarez in Nanacamilpan; El Peñón; route through Córdoba; Puente de Santo Domingo near Buenavista; Santa Anna; Guerrillas de Tlalmanalco and Ozumba; Colín; flight of city officials of Chalco to Tlalmanalco; capture of prisoners. August 11: Advance to Ayotla and el Moral; religious procession to Cerro de Cocotitlán and Hacienda de Atoyac; Bescarril; Bermejo; Mexican troops in Ayotz[ing]o; defense of Mexicaltzingo; Peñol; San Gregorio; letter to Rodríguez sent by canoe. August 12: Pueblo de Tlaltenco; San Isidro; San Agustín de las Cuevas; arrival of wagon trains; Álvarez at Puebla.
Arrival of troops at Puente and San Martín; Murillo.
Troops at Puebla and Río Frío; San Martín; Quintana.
Troops at Puebla; Vicente Zamora; Río Frío; Colín.
Efforts to move Juzgado and prisoners to Juchi (?); loan of carriage.
Troops at San Martín Texmelucan; Jalapa; Puebla; Veracruz; the Contraguerrilla created from criminal element by Scott; Tlalmanalco; Garrido.
Troops at Puente de Texmeluca[n] and Río Frío; Puebla; the Contraguerrilla at Barranca de Juanes and Córdoba; capture of the Vicario de Tlahuapa[n]; release of a Frenchman and the Vicario; Álvarez at Nanacamilpa; attack on El Peñón; trade with the enemy; cavalry movements; contraguerrillas in Puente de Santo Domingo, near Buenavista.
Arrival of troops at Río Frío.
Guerrilla action at Tlalmanalco, Ozumba, and involving Colín; search for cattle; cattle removed from roads. Includes draft of answer; trip to Moral; religious procession; Atoyac; Bermejo; Ixtapaluca; Ayotla; Río Frío; Córdoba.
Military requisition of corn; payment to Vivanco in Ayotla; payment for oxen taken at San Gregorio; San Martín; conduct of troops in Puebla; damage done in Buenavista and Ayotla by
Observation of Ayotla, El Peñón, and Mexicalcingo; troop movements. Draft of answer.
Report on troop movements; Santiago Acagualtepeque; Calzada de Tlauac; Ixtapalapa. Includes draft of answer, reporting troops at Chalco and Hacienda de San Juan de Dios; Canalizo in Ayotzingo; cavalry in Tlalmanalco; guerrillas in Santa Cruz.
Request for continued reports on troop movements.
Departure of Velázquez for Ozumba; Quintana; Olavarrieta; Laureano; Sánchez; sale of corn to troops by Eduardo Esmit, Calle de San Agustín, and by Luis G. Argos of Mexico; requisitions by the enemy troops.
U. S. troops at the Hacienda de la Asunción; service with Guerrillas in Llanos de Apán with General Álvarez; family in San Pablo; Colín; Colonel Montaño; Antonio Colín; Hacienda de Zoquiapa[n] and Buenavista.
Escape from the capital with Bravo and Gauna; visit with (Juan de Dios?) Núñez; bombardment of the city; Salvador Pérez; impeded delivery of flour; troops at Mexicalcingo and Chalco; wheat from Moral, Guadalupe, San José.
Requisition of corn and cattle; payment with check on Garnug (?) in Mexico; Juan García; Guerrilla de Tlalmanalco; Moral and Guadalupe; withdrawal of troops; Chiconquiahuil.
Requisition in the name of the 9th Cavalry Regiment. Also signed A. García.
Requisition in the name of the 5th Cavalry.
Account of action at Puente de Zoquiapan by troops of Juan Álvarez; action at Buenavista; effects of artillery fire; death of Captain Blasco; withdrawal to Coatepec; care of families; danger to Hacienda de la Asunción.
Recruiting of troops in capital; troop movement to Churubusco; General Valencia's troops in El Pedregal; Álvarez' rear guard; Don M[]; Antonio; friends in Toluca.
Request for intervention with General Álvarez for recovery of requisitioned horses.
Rumors of Mexican victory in attack on the Ladrillera.
Request for attendance of Diputados at session of Congress.
Movement of Álvarez to Chapultepeque; attack on Tacubaya; payment made by Robertson; Quintana; Colín.
News brought by Ángel [Murillo?]; defeat of Valencia; capture of Bravo, Francisco Pérez, Mejía, and three battalions of Guardia Nacional; uprising in Mexico; movement to transfer government to Querétaro; Santa Anna's desire to continue the fight.
Military successes at Churubusco; heavy losses of the Batallón de Independencia under Torrejón;
Reports of Rodríguez and Padre Germán; Juan Núñez; new troops at Veracruz.
Notice of requisitioned horses at Tetelco; Álvarez reported at Milpa Alta.
Delivery of letter to Isidro? in Toluca; milling of flour in Zav[]ta, property of Pesqueira; delivery of flour to Juan de Dios Núñez by Francisco Obregón and José María Bonilla.
Return of Quintana; letter delivered by Cornelio; Olavarrieta; Núñez.
Request for attendance of a quorum in order to decide whether to move from the capital.
Public opposition to policy of Santa Anna; loss of fortifications; garrison at Chapultepec; Cavalry at Guadalupe; manifestos of Santa Anna and Valencia; Scott's order to millers of Rivera.
Appointment of Pedraza, Lacunza, and García to treat for an armistice; Pedraza's return to Jalpam; negotiations with Trist; Ministro Romero; movement to Tacubaya, Tlalpam, San Ángel, Coyoacán, and Mixcoac; prisoners of Valencia; Bravo, Carrera, Penz (?), and Partearroyo in El Peñón; collusion of Valencia and Olaguíbel in Toluca against Santa Anna; Tornel made Gobernador of the District; Álvarez.
Concern over frequent pronunciamientos; meeting with Barrio at Miraflores.
Request for Riva Palacio to go to Querétaro to attend meetings of the Congress; popular determination not to yield to force.
Return of document; payment of alcabala.
Meeting of Commission for negotiating a peace; J. J. Herrera; Ignacio Mora; B. Couto; Atristain; meeting with Lafragua; newspapers sent via Núñez; inclination of generals toward peace.
Quintana sent to the capital for news.
Independent operations of Llera and Castañeda; Olaguíbel; concern over the end of the armistice.
Request for receipt for payment of rent to Rodríguez.
Excesses committed by Capitán Castañeda and his guerrillas; General Álvarez; Llera; plea for aid in restoring order.
Invitation to a visit; Rodríguez. Embossed design; Benfield Mexico.
Copy of notes from Juan Rodríguez Puebla and Arzobispo de Cesarea; enemy
troops in Texcoco; Gómez Pedraza; approval of Germán's enlistment as
Occupation of Mexico City; movement of government to Querétaro; Osores; hope for eventual victory.
Entry into duties as head of Prefectura.
Action at Churubusco; congratulations to Ignacio Méndez; General Anaya, and the Guardia Nacional; offer of loan; concern for welfare of Ignacio Herrera, son of Francisco Herrera Campos; General Rincón.
North American territorial demands; armistice negotiations; disorder within the city; Victoria at Pinillos; San Fernando Hidalgo; Olaguíbel's maneuvers; Lerma; Mier at San Nicolás; food supplies; guerrilla activities at Tlalpam, San Ángel, and Coyoacán; Lafragua.
Improvement of city defenses; activities of foreigners; confiscated letter concerning a monarchy; F. Ágreda; passport regulations; Santa Anna.
Guerrilla activities; Gómez; Valencia; San Gregorio.
Transmittal of printed material; sale of grain to Trillo; condition of North American troops; Valencia; gift of cookies; Velázquez.
Transmittal of printed material; activities of foreigners; Olaguíbel; debt paid by Núñez; danger of attack and pillage.
Approaching end of armistice; U.S. instructions to Trist to conclude peace treaty.
Death of Valderas; efforts to organize a meeting of the Congress; danger to Mexico City; election plans; Riva Palacio and Pedraza mentioned for Senate and Ocampo for Presidency; Gamboa.
Transcription of letter from Paredes giving account of military action at Chapultepec, El Molino, and Casa de Mata; artillery fire; losses; enemy movement to Tacubaya; maneuvers of Santa Anna and Bravo criticized; Los Morales; death of Valderas; illness of General León of Oaxaca.
Conditions in the city; death of Lucas Valderas and General León of Oaxaca; actions at El Molino del Salvador; dwindling effectiveness of enemy troops; Scott's impatience; arming of prisoners from the Acordada.
Letters from Otero and Núñez; Quintana; enemy troops at San Antonio Abad; troops at San Borja and Ladrillera; arrival of Trinidad; sale of corn.
Preparations for defense of the city; guerrilla activity at Puebla.
Military action at El Molino del Rey and Casa Mata; troops of Mina, Oaxaca, and San Blas; Santa Anna; Chapultepec; death of Valderas and León; artillery at La Piedad, Niño Perdido, and San Antonio Abad; rumor of withdrawal to Puebla.
Military movements into the city; shortage of food.
Olaguíbel's intrigues and denial of aid to the capital; Residents of Chalco urged to attack enemy supply lines.
Artillery fire at San Antonio Abad, La Piedad, Chapultepec, and Santa Marta; enemy troops at Tacubaya, Mienague(?), La Piedad, and la Ladrillera.
Artillery fire from Casa de la Cortina, La Condesa, and Hacienda de los Morales against Chapultepec; troops from Hidalgo at El Niño Perdido; fire at San Ángel; arrival of Olaguíbel with aid for Álvarez instead of Santa Anna; action at Molino del Rey; Santa Anna at la Ciudadela; hour by hour account of bombardment.
Military action at Ixtapalapa and San Isidro and Hacienda de la Condesa and La Arboleda; La Piedad; Ameca; troop movement to Mexicalcingo; Garrido in Miraflores.
Fall of Chapultepec; bombardment at La Garita de Belén; La Teja; attack at San Cosme; Castro; arrival of Cortazar in Morales with reinforcements; San Antonio Abad; execution of San Patricio prisioners; reports by Trinidad.
Action at la Garita de San Antonio Abad, Tacubaya, and Hacienda de la Condesa; Scott's reinforcements; danger to the Ciudadela.
Chapultepec; withdrawal of troops from the capital; illness of Vicente Meivar.
Appeal for aid in defense of the nation.
Military action in the capital; flight of Santa Anna to Querétaro reported; criticism of Álvarez; San Francisco; San Hipólito; Jardín de Tolsa (Tolosa?).
Casa de la Pinillos; meeting of the Ayuntamiento; Cuautla; El Gallo.
Protests over raising American flag; fighting in streets of San Ildefonso, San Pedro y San Pablo, and Santo Domingo; U.S. troops besieged in the Ciudadela; incidents at La Moneda; troop movements at El Peñón and Guadalupe; gunpowder captured; prisoners.
Request for news from the capital; illness of Vicente Meivar; gift of
Looting in the capital; damage at La Encarnación; efforts of the Ayuntamiento to restore order.
Receipt of coach; order restored in the city; damage to the schools; Ramírez to defend jailed arsonist; activity of the Ayuntamiento.
Request for intervention in dispute between Álvarez and Alcalde José Tirado; Jesús Tirado; Agustín.
Arrival of Álvarez from Acuautla; his difficulties with the Ayuntamiento de Istapalapa; local support of national defense; plan to disband the guerrilla; danger to crops; food shortages; need for rain; Vicente Meivar (Aleivar?).
Valencia sentenced to pay damages for his misconduct.
Damage caused by freezing weather.
Acceptance of defeat; Withdrawal of deputies to Querétaro; Mier; Bando de Quilman (?); prisoners of Churubusco; Méndez; Herrera in Toluca; freedom allowed prisoners of the Diputación, la Acordada, and Santiago; damage to house of Tijera, Inviscornia (?), Alamán, Suárez el Corredor, Otal, Conde de Santiago, José Juan, Valencia, Bravo, and Viscaíno; proposed execution of extremists; the Ayuntamiento's attack on Santa Anna; attendance at congress urged.
Instructions to attend meeting of Soberano Congreso Constituyente in Querétaro, October 5.
Excesses committed by soldiers and released criminals; protection afforded Spanish flag; Tagle at Hacienda de los Tepetates; Señora Nava.
Salonio; movement of deputies to Querétaro; Ortega; Gorospe; Villar; Pancho's fear of
Request for aid in settling account with Bernardo Colín; sale of corn on order of Antonio Barrios; Rafael Pliego; Luis Colín.
Letter of Salonio for meeting in Querétaro; Pedro Anaya; Manuel (?) in Talpa; damage to house at Puente de Leguisomo; churches reopened.
Call for meeting of citizens of Chalco to discuss means of combating growing lawlessness.
Warning of the Prefecto in Texcoco concerning prohibition against selling essential supplies in Mexico.
Pablo Gómez; Tula; Huehuetoca; Riva Palacio urged to attend meeting in Querétaro with Terreros; Otero; Juliana; Manuela.
Unpaid debts in Atlixco; Domingo Ibarra; death of Antonio Pesqueira; troops of Pedro Herrera in Puebla; Álvarez at Atlixco; Santa Anna at Cholula; Congress at Querétaro.
Protest against order of the Prefectura de Texcoco against sending supplies to the capital; Luis Trillo; request for purchase of wheat; note of Bravo; copies of
Order received by the Alcalde de Chalco for sale of mules in the capital at la Casa de Monte Pío; José Tirado; Ontiveros; Agustín; money received for Abad; Francisco Velázquez.
Transmittal of letter from Jalpan via Núñez; Anaya.
Departure for Querétaro; Zamora or Velázquez recommended for the Subprefectura; withdrawal of restriction on supplies for the capital; alcabalas.
Transmittal of publications and letter of Juan Núñez; conspiracy against occupying troops revealed; execution of Loperena at la Ciudadela; Valencia's success near Toluca; Chapultepec; Barrio; La Loma; Obregón.
Acceptance of request of attend Congress in Querétaro. Includes also copy of letter of same date expressing hopes for a better government.
Return of Germán to San Gregorio; illness of Doloritas; Atilano Sánchez; Narciso Díaz de la Vega's departure for Juchicon(?); San Francisco.
Barrio at La Loma; Hacienda del Moral.
Request for Riva Palacio's attendance at the Junta; Cura de Ameca; Barrio.
Request for aid in transfer to another position; complaint against Serrano at Totiguacan (Teotihuacán?); Vicente Zamora; illness of General Manuel Villada.
Legal difficulties in sale of land by Sra. Higuera; La Loma; death of Pesqueira; Juana Francisca López.
Vicente Zamora recommended for position of sub-prefecto interino.
Withdrawal of candidacy for position, pleading ill health; Villagrán recommended.
Transmittal of legal papers for Juana Francisca López; Garrido; Velázquez.
Rodríguez; San Gregorio; recent earthquake (political?).
Cura Germán; assistance to Cabildo; ecclesiastical duties.
Payment for wheat; Luis Trillo; illness of Payno.
Delay in mails; Cuautitlán; activities of Junta Patriótica in Chalco; lack of co-operation in Tlayacaga and Tenango; Zamora's guerrilla troops at Ixtapaluca and Tlalmanalco; Neri del Barrio; guerrilla activity between Puebla and Veracruz; conditions in capital; hope for an early peace settlement; political dissension in capital.
Efforts to rent a house for Riva Palacio; Luis Trillo; sale of wheat from harvest at La Asunción; payment by Picazo; Sra. Nava at Hacienda de Caro; Tagle.
Gerónimo Maldonado; experiences during capture of the city; children Pepa, Lola, and Loreto; aid given by American Lona, employee of Cumplido's press;
Lists Manuel Alas, Miguel Arias, Antonio Balderas, Mucio Barquera, Vicente Barquera, Eulogio Barrera, Felipe Neri del Barrio; Juan J. Baz, Agustín Buenrrostro, Antonio María de Castro, Ignacio Cid del Prado, José María Cuevas, Manuel Díaz Zimbrón, Hilario Elguera, Aniceto Escudero, Francisco Estrada, Nicolás Fernández, Guadalupe G. Figueroa, Estanislao Flores, José María Franco, Francisco Garay, Manuel García Aguirre, Benito Gómez la Madrid, Luis Gonzaga Chavarri, Pedro González de la Vega, Aniceto Hernández, Vicente Hernández, Herrera, José María Jáuregui, José María Jiménez, José María Lacunza, Francisco Lerdo de Tejada, Joaquín Madrid, José María Mateos, Manuel Medina, Juan Mirafuentes, Luis Ceferino Montes, Joaquín Navarro, Ocampo, Isidro Olvera, Otero, Juan Palacios, Pedraza, Rafael de la Peña, Francisco Peña Barragán, Ángel Pérez Palacios, Mariano Pérez Tagle, José María del Río, Mariano Riva Palacio, Domingo Rodríguez, Manuel Rosas, Guillermo Sánchez Barquera, José Sánchez Espinosa, José Sánchez Figueroa, Sebastián Segura, Rafael Solares, Manuel Torres Torija, Ignacio Vera, Francisco Villavicencio, and Fermín Viniegra.
Form letter also addressed to Manuel Terreros and José María de Lacunza, congratulating the first two for their re-election; order for Castillo to pay them in Cuautitlán; death of Lieutenant Governor Diego J. Pérez y Fernández.
Gathering of beans and barley; shortage of labor; rains; delivery of wheat to Leocadio Ortega; payment; sale of wheat at El Molino to Juan Núñez; Luis Trillo.
Request for a list of the leading ecclesiastics of the nation in order that recommendation may be made to S. Santidad for appointment of an Archbishop of Mexico. Has indorsement to José Miguel Alba, Secretario.
Rodríguez; pessimistic view of the new government; reports of damages done property in the capital; Terreros. Embossed design: Crown with letters: Bordeaux S.B.F.
Report on inclement weather.
Request for documents needed by the Plana Mayor. Embossed design: Beneficencia en Puebla.
Appointment of Riva Palacio as Ministro de Justicia; wheat and barley harvest; damage done by rains; chiconguinhuil; bean harvest; Otero, Icaza; Vertis; reorganization of provincial police; Estancia del Molino.
Advice against accepting a post in the new government; presidential elections; Rodríguez.
Death of Joaquín Romanos; approval of Peña and Rosa.
Juan Pablo Acuña; Tagle; Sra. Nava; Hacienda de la Sipi; Pablo; Sra. Retes; sale of wheat; Trillo; El Molino.
Writing in hand of Francisco Frías; Richelieu; Ignacio at Atlamaxac; lawless conditions prevailing.
Publications in
Harvesting of barley and beans; Chicong[]le; Buelco?; prices of grain; deliveries to Núñez; Quintana; Otero; Vértiz; prices of bulls; Miraflores; payment to Epitacio; Obregón; loan to the Juez de Letras; Zamora; Garrido.
Decision of President to appoint committes on a ministerial level to consult and advise on governmental problems; Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Luis G. Cuevas, Bernardo Couto, José María Lafragua, José Ramón Pacheco, Juan B. Morales, Octaviano Muñoz Ledo, Mariano Otero, Casiano González Veyna, José María Jiménez, Juan Gómez Navarrete, Mariano Riva Palacio, Antonio Fernández Monjardin, Joaquín Fernández Madrid (Obispo de Tenagra), José Antonio Salonio, José María Godoy, M. Zurita (Cura de Santiago de Querétaro), José María Ochoa (Cura de San Juan del Río), Francisco Javier Echeverría, Francisco Fagoaga, Pedro Echeverría, José Ramón Malo, Mariano Domínguez, José María Fernández y Barberi, Antonio Icaza, Francisco Javier Reygadas, Nicanor Aróstegui, Antonio García Salina, Anastasio Bustamante, José Joaquín de Herrera, Manuel Rincón, Vicente Filisola, Mariano Arista.
Request for aid to a soldier from the Compañía de San Patricio in search of Anastacio Bustamante in Guanajuato; La Angostura; Churubusco.
Contains eight communications:
Administrative problems of the hacienda; reports in
Payment to Núñez; Colonel Fernando Urrisa.
Wheat harvest at Chiconguiahuil and Guadalupe; Zamora; sale of corn; Otero.
Plans to delay departure of Trist for further discussion; help of Bernardo Couto; recognition of Texas; danger of losing New Mexico and California; need for peace discussions in Mexico instead of in Washington; immediate action by Congress urged; prospective movement of U. S. troops to Querétaro; new laws of the Civil and Military Government in the capital; delays in the Ayuntamiento.
Sale of wheat at Asunción; Sra. Nava; Mariano Pruneda; milling problems; request for recommendation to Juez de Letras Boneta in Cuernavaca for Luis Trillo; litigation over water rights.
Atristain; Colín; Icaza; illness of Vértiz; Quintana; sale of wheat from Chianguiahuil (?) and Guadalupe to Plácido Vidaurrazaga (?); San Martín; sale of corn; Zavaleta; bean harvest; Miraflores.
Delay in payment of debt; José Otero; Quintana; Icaza; Atristain; previous agreement with Riva Palacio; threat of legal action.
Request for old clothing.
Order for repayment for damages done by soldiers at the hacienda; Padre Gaona; departure of Manuel and Julianita for Mexico; Godoy; wife Guadalupe.
The Otero litigation; intervention of Atristain and Vértiz; Quintana; Icaza; Armategui.
Legal council for Irisarri and the Archbishop; José Guadalupe Covarrubias; Padilla; José María Barrera.
Ma[riqui]ta's marital difficulties; visit to Chalco; San Pablo; Pereda; Moral; José María el Güero; Axotzingo. Includes short note signed Vicente Riva Palacio, another signed Carlos Riva Palacio.
Account of difficulties with Ministro del Tribunal Boneta.
Newspaper reports from the capital; inclement weather; Zamora; Francisco Javier.
Note on inclement weather. Contains also similar note signed by Carlos Riva Palacio y Guerrero.
Adjustment of wheat prices; mills at Santo Domingo; accounts of Sra. Nava; Perdigones; Guadalajara; difficulties among American troops; attitude of Irish soldiers.
Report of theft of $1,200 from (Vicente) Riva Palacio, Batre, and other travellers; Godoy.
Rumor of troop movements to Chalco and Venta de Córdoba; note sent to Vicente Zamora to Rodríguez; Tonchita; visit to Tlalmanalco; conduct of Mariquita. Embossed design: Crown with letters LONDON SUPERFINE.
Note on arrival of U. S. troops in Chalco.
End of Indian uprising near Chilapa; Haro; disillusionment with government policy; march to Acapulco; inquiry about sale of Vicente Guerrero's house in Acapulco.
Answer to copy of letter from Olaguíbel accepting the offer to forget all past differences.
Transmittal of letters to Lacunza, González, and Noriega; request for support; Otero; Mirafuentes.
Death of Pascasio from diabetes; daughter presented to Riva Palacio; Salgado; Félix; shipment of arms promised; Granados.
Service with Congress during withdrawal to Querétaro. Need to care for family. Request for leave; plan to return home. Embossed design: BENEFICENCIA EN PUEBLA.
Return of Riva Palacio announced by Dolores; administrative problems at el Moral; Quintana; elections.
Offer to speculate in corn and barley; reported march of U. S. troops to Querétaro.
Rumors of uprisings in other states; Yáñez in Tepic; alarm in Jalisco; Tornel in Morelia; Atristain; Santa Anna; Miñón appointed in Guanajuato; Juan Pablo Anaya to march to Sonora and Sinaloa; Gutiérrez in Tampico; Alcorta's departure for Mexico to protect his books; rumored occupation of the house of Pedraza in Mexico; Juan Rodríguez Puebla.
Mission of Montoya to Rome; improvements needed in Puebla; political situation reported to Rome; Santa Anna; request for help in regularizing ecclesiastical affairs in Puebla; talks with Gómez Pedraza; appeals to Peña y Peña and to Anaya; letter to Scott on care of prisoners; Rosa.
Appointment for the Archbishop to meet Lieutenant Colonel Witchcock, the Inspector General, at the Acordada and arrange for the release of the prisoners of war.
Payment of salary to workman authorized by Salazar.
Acknowledgement of liberty granted under parole to 800 prisoners of war.
Invitation declined; illness of wife; ill state of public safety.
Convoy on road to Mexico; Ayuntamiento elections; stalemate of the Congress; request for aid to the Archbishop; Peña; blame cast on Santa Anna; Montoya in Rome; Rodríguez; Pedraza's letter to Anaya and Peña; Mora. Archbishop's representative needed in Querétaro to arrange exchange of prisoners; parole proposed for prisoners; Rosa; Scott.
Plan for a meeting; Cástulo Navarro; troops to move to Querétaro, San Luis, or San Juan del Río; Ayuntamiento dissolved by order of the Military Governor.
Letters from Querétaro; Zurutuza; Rodríguez; attempt of occupying troops to occupy the school; safeguard given by Scott; soldiers billeted in Pedraza's house.
Interview with Gómez Pedraza; Anaya; Rosa; liberation of the prisoners of war described; Scott; Trist; aid given by Reyes Veramendi, representing Mexican authorities.
Stalemate of the Congress; Haro; defeat attributed to disunity among Mexicans; disapproval of Santa Anna; house in Tixtla given to Celís Abarca; Rodríguez Puebla.
Request for loan; Rodríguez Puebla; Cayetano.
Inability to pay contribution levied by the Sub-Prefecto for public security; appeal to Riva Palacio; Asunción.
Request for interview.
Promise to repay $160.
Receipt of money for Varela; Congress to be recalled; threat to tenure of Peña and Anaya; Otero; Mariano Tagle.
Removal of body of Manuel Escudero; purchase of cemetery lot.
Genaro Béistegui; package with doll sent by messenger; Rodríguez Puebla; arrival in Querétaro; recall of Congress; Morales; preparation for further flight; Casa de Mackintosh; Ramón Pacheco; forced loan imposed in Guanajuato; Anastasio (Bustamante?); Miñón; Arellano; Suárez Iriarte; Salgado; Pepe's dancing lessons. Includes also draft of reply by Riva Palacio, dated January 10, 1848, recalling memories of their life together in Querétaro; Pedro Anaya; comparison of Mexico with the prosperity of France; criticism of
Apparently part of a longer document not identified. A summary of national income from tobacco between 1841 and 1847; conditions at the end of the war.
Letter from Otero; execution of American soldier for murder of Cajiga.
Request for help for Captain José Antonio Arredondo of the Compañía Activa presidial de Nuevo León; family in San Luis; General Canales; Comandancia General de Tamaulipas: Includes confidential note on Santa Anna's activities in Oaxaca; efforts to raise troops; communication with Álvarez; work of Anaya.
Sale of Hacienda de Acuautla; Ignacio Lorenzo Carrera; dowery for Juanita; Barrios; Antonio Rebollar; enemy soldiers; Colín; San Vicente; Ameca and Tlalmanalco.
Opposition of Santos to marriage of Francisco Sánchez and María de la Concepción, widow of Aparicio; Juan Nepomuceno; request for advice.
Appointment of Riva Palacio as Ministro de Justicia y Negocios Eclesiásticos.
Appointment of Riva Palacio as Ministro de Justicia y Negocios Eclesiásticos.
Request for intervention with American military government authorities for release of funds for the Distrito de Texcoco; Arechaga's resignation; appointment of Vicente Ortiz de Rosas?; customs duties; Sra. Villaurrutia; Texcoco; Teotihuacán. Riva Palacio is addressed as “primo.”
Rosa appointed Ministro de Relaciones and Hacienda; Durán's temporary office; Pedraza; Otero; U.S. troops in Toluca; building of house; Robredo; Americans at San Ángel.
Letter from Peña; package entrusted to Núñez; arrest of Otero; bail by Martínez del Río.
Intention to accept public office; concern for family.
Successful end to litigation. Embossed design: Ship on scroll; letters ESSONNE.
Proposals of Governor of San Luis Potosí for new convention and new government; Mexican troops' approach to the capital; efforts to convene new Congress.
Mariano; departure of Manuel for Querétaro; movement to support Santa Anna; death of Próspero Pérez at Santa Catarina.
Noriega; attack on Padre Arauto at San Juan Teotihuacán by American soldiers.
Legal affairs of Sra. de López; Rodríguez Puebla.
Plans for working with Riva Palacio in Querétaro; suggestions for improvements; danger of rebellion in San Luis; work of the
Riva Palacio urged to accept new position; plans of the
Claims against the Juzgado de Capellanías by the widow of Juan Francisco López; Osores; Rodríguez.
Father's illness; transmittal of letters from Irizarri and from Querétaro.
Transmittal of letters; news of uprisings in the states; Luis.
Wthdrawal of suit against Benigno Pardo; Vizcayno; Colegio de San Gregorio. Includes draft of reply, same date.
News of
Criticism of earlier letter; appointment by Peña; travel plans.
Problems raised about the Hacienda del Moral; Gregorio de Mier y Terán; partial payment of debt.
Report on illness; remodeling of house in Mexico.
Request for help in convalescence.
Transmittal of letter to Sierra.
Witnesses: José Francisco Velázquez, José María Garrido, Rafael Alva; Juan Francisco López; Pascasio López; deposit with Juzgado de Letras. Marginal endorsements by Martín Montes de Oca.
Death of Ángel Atescatenco; Barrios.
Interview with Osores; transmittal of communications with American officials by Rodríguez.
Work at San Bartolo and El Moral; wheat crop; Juan López; Santos Aparicio; Julián; Vega; Porfirio.
Panadería de Aldana; piano; mirrors, laterns, tools, and kitchen equipment, listed with values.
Money received from Juan Núñez; work on the hacienda.
Decrees by the Military authorities; District of Tulancingo; payment of contribution; danger from robbers; Calle de Cordobanes.
Illness of Juanita; colera; Fernández; Velázquez.
Removal of family to Mexico; wound in hand; capture of Iguala from Olaguíbel; request for support of Olaguíbel in Iguala.
Weakness of Olaguíbel; Iguala; Tixtla; Querétaro; Teloloapan.
Work on the hacienda; San Bartolo; El Molino; Núñez; Tlalmanalco; El Moral.
Travel to Querétaro delayed by financial trouble; Durán; Rosa; request for loan.
Efforts to settle differences between Olaguíbel and Álvarez.
Request for Riva Palacio to continue to Querétaro and assume duties of his office.
Annexation of Sub-prefecto de Chalco to the Ayuntamiento de México; loss of position; Blas Zamora in Querétaro.
School experiences; Mendiola; Hernández; Colegio de San Gregorio.
Wheat harvest; sale of beans in Chalco; Velázquez; Texcoco; Núñez; sale of corn.
Purchase of carriage; Antonio Tirado; Cura de Tenango; El Moral.
Discussions with Juan Suárez concerning the Vilela litigation.
Election of Ocio and Lozano; involvement of Piña and Payno in El proyecto de Hada; Ramírez; Jefe político de Tlaxcala; lawlessness in the capital; Plazuela de Loreto; foreigners robbed; protection by American troops.
Illness; conditions at El Moral; Manuelito; Marianita.
Illness; travel to Querétaro; letter from Blas; daughter's engagement to Rebollar; Hacienda de Acuautla.
Death of godfather; Trinidad shot by Americans at Istapaluca; hospitalization at Guadalupe; announcements to be printed by Núñez.
Transmittal of action by the Junta [eclesiástica]; Bishop of Michoacán.
Watermark: J. WHATMAN 1836.
Nicolás Carrillo; meeting of Junta gubernativa; rental of house.
Travel to Querétaro via Mexico; military news; Calle de Vanegas.
Bill for tuition for Vicente Riva Palacio; Pascacio López, and Juan Francisco López; Carlos [Riva Palacio]; Colegio de San Gregorio. Includes note signed M. Riva Palacio, dated March 21, ordering payment by Antonio (?) de Icaza.
Accident suffered by Mariano Rodríguez; doctors from Tezcoco and Chalco; Dr. Langrave in Ameca.
Elections in Puebla; José Joaquín de Herrera; Juan Rodríguez San Miguel; Pepito Lafragua; José María Jiménez; Dominguito Ibarra; death of canónigo Corral. Addressed to Querétaro.
Correspondence with Rome; Campos.
Hope for firmer government; need for orderly elections; transmittal of copies of
Arrival of Castillo and Barberi; Pedro Echeverría; substitution of Javier.
Installation of the Junta Consultiva; need for establishment of courts; election of deputies in Puebla. Deputies elected: Joaquín Cardoso y Torija, Manuel Payno (hijo), Pascual Almazán, José María Mendoza, Joaquín Zamacona, Antonio Díaz Guzmán, Ignacio Bernal, José Bernardo Couto, Francisco Cerrano, Rafael Espinosa, Amador Silva, José Gut[iérre]z Villanueva, Vicente Iturbide, José Antonio Bazo, Manuel Carpio, and Camilo Bros, Félix Beistegui y Azcue, and José Antonio Zalazar y Jiménez.
Peña's plan to establish courts; Durán; Juez Inclán; Promotor.
Illness of Dominga; Yanguas; Rosa; effects of occupation on business; Eraso.
Discussion of litigation concerning Esteva, Vilela, and Manterola; election of judge; Otero; Velázquez; weakening of government support; discussion of proposed treaty; Cuevas; Couto.
Certificate for Enrique de la Tijera; Ignacio; Doloritas. Addressed to Querétaro.
Illness; establishment of Tribunal Mercantil and Junta de Préstamos;
Request for aid in establishing Lic. Guerra Manzanares as Jefe Político de Tlaxcala; opposition of Luis Espino; bail for Llera paid by Antonio Haro.
Illness of Doloritas; the alcabala; need for tax revenue; charges of desertion against Chavero; Anaya. Includes copy of letter from Juan Agea to Isidoro Martínez de Chavero, Plana Mayor del Ejército, Querétaro, October 18, 1847, allowing leave to Lt. Col. Martínez de Chavero.
Bail for Llera paid by Antonio Haro; weakness of the government; need for a National Guard; violation of the armistice protested by Americans; guerrilla activity;
Correspondence with Rome, via Montoya on law of May 28, 1847; meeting with Mier y Terán, Iturbe, Rosas.
Reference to: Goivia. Embossed design; Crown with letters: PATENT UNDER BATH.
Criticism by the Junta [eclesiástica] and Cabildo [eclesiástico]; bill presented by Zurutuza and by the Tribunal Mercantil; Campos.
Objection to law terminating payments from the Fondo dotal de Minería to that of Azogues for Church support; Tornel; Basoco; Segura; Ministro del Ramo; Rosa; Peña; encouragement of Church schools and libraries.
Request for aid in disagreement between Ignacio and Antonio Castañón and their agent Lorenzo Qamio (Camio?) over a house rental, corner of Jesús and Balbanera; Tejada; disturbed conditions caused by military occupation of the city; Lic. Saldívar.
Illness of Doloritas; Pepe; request for aid in education of his son; defeat of the
Request for relief on part of the Junta de Minería; Luis de la Rosa; insecurity of the roads; government control over new
Contested elections; E. Romero, Miguel Buenr[]; defeat of the
Aid of Pedraza in obtaining justice; reports sent to Montoya; request for aid in elections to the Supreme Court; order to all clergy for public prayers for peace; Durán; news from Europe urging peace treaty.
Request for aid to Gustavo Desaché in efforts to sell powder to the government from shipment arrived in Veracruz.
Treaty negotiations; illness of Dr. Iturralde; troops billeted in the College; Tagle.
Request for fair trial; letter to Pedraza.
Conversion of the foreign debt, November 27, 1846, in meeting with Ministro de Hacienda José Lázaro Villamil and President Mariano Salas; use of funds of the Tesorería General to pay soldiers in San Luis Potosí; defense of Veracruz.
Meeting of the Junta electoral; Fernández del Castillo; P. Rojas, Pedro Sorrin; Basadre nominated Senator by General Mora y Villamil on behalf of Peña y Peña; Luis Cuevas.
New expenses of the Colegio de Minería; order of March 19; José María Cuebas; registration in geology, zoölogy, and German; Gondra's purchases for the Museum.
Miguel; Haro; news of the republic in France; fear of American ascendency in Europe; arrival of Cumplido; election reports at the University.
Advice given by Rodríguez Puebla; letter of Pedraza of January 5, 1847; Gregorio Mier; Pedraza's approval of the conversion of the foreign debt; Fagoaga; Payno; Rosa; Pedro Fernández del Castillo; Lizardi; bonds sold to Manning and Mackintosh; Parres; Murphy; Santa Anna's expenses; Haro;
Local elections; Herrera; Francisco Fagoaga; Arrillaga; Vértiz; Manuel Gorospe; Rafael Berruecos; Durán.
Illness of Riva Palacio; Manuel Echeverría; Pablo Villa; invitation for visit.
Expense money borrowed from El Moral; spring sowing at the hacienda; tejocote; wheat; fence building; bridge and dam construction; corn prices; debt of Bartolo González; Cadena; Julián.
Illness reported; Tijera; Aguirre; request for payment of debt; illness of Doloritas and Carlos; Robredo.
The Vilela litigation; purchase of corn; Berruecos; Manterola; Esteva; Villa; Cosio; Otero; arrival of new American minister; Ortigosa; elections of Vértiz; Fagoaga, Arrillaga; Cuevas; Riva Palacio's trouble with his hand.
Rosa's instructions favoring Castillo; Junta de Minería; Juan Flores; Barrio; Riva Palacio's hand; Francisco Fagoaga; opposition of Segura.
Pancho Carrillo; difficulties of Martín Suárez with Customs over movement of pulque; involvement of Blas Bros. in double charges; cédula of November 1, 1571; real orden of July 24, 1803; request for help; Manuel Payno y Bustamante; Díaz; Otero.
Increase of lawlessness in the city; Baranda; Doloritas; author's illness; arrival of Cumplido.
Efforts to prepare his own defense; letter to MacKintosh; Juan M. Flores;
Riva Palacio's hand infection; Gómez Pedraza; dispatch [of Expediente canónigo]; fear of delays because of unsettled conditions in Europe.
Letters from Tlapa; San Gabriel; travel to Tenancingo; Gracida; Taxco; revolution reported in favor of Santa Anna; San Luis; Guadalajara; interviews with Bravo and Rea; Felipe Neri.
Illness reported; letter from Víctor Blanco; exile blamed on disunity within Mexico.
Election of Herrera and Juan Vértiz; Fagoaga; Arrillaga; Gorospe; Berruecos.
Appointment of bishops; L. Rodríguez San Miguel; Alegría; withdrawal of order of October 25; Montoya; lawless conditions in the city; criticism of the Governor; Otero; Berdugo.
Mutual infirmities; Zurutuza; reluctance to go Querétaro; Muñoz Ledo; Montes; Otero; criticism of living conditions; treaty negotiations; influence of European developments on Mexico; fear of the
Meeting of junta; college expenses; income of Director; loan raised.
Haro, Secretary of General Álvarez; Rosa; influence of political developments in Europe; Upper California; New Mexico, Texas, and Yucatán given up as lost; Cuevas, Couto, and Pedraza.
Political parties favoring annexation, total military occupation, destruction of the clergy, and a permanent occupation; American briefing on opinions of newlyelected deputies; billeting in Antonio Haro's house; return of Cumplido; trip to Querétaro.
Tijera; transmittal of loan; Doloritas; Vicente.
Protest against billeting of American delegates in his house; (Ambrose H.) Sevier; (Nathan) Clifford;
Invitation to accompany the President on visit to churches of Santa Clara, Capilla de San Benito en San Francisco, San Antonio, La Congregación, Parroquia de Santiago. Riva Palacio addressed as Consultor Confidencial. Stamp of office.
Breakdown of judicial processes; crimes committed by U.S. troops; criticism of senators and deputies for not meeting in Querétaro; influence of European political events on U.S. policy; Rodríguez Puebla.
Criticism of Rosa; college administrative costs; funds of the Azogue; miners represented by J. M. Flores y Terán; Andrés del Río; Alamán; A. Garay; Francisco Fagoaga.
Return of Benito [Haro]; criticism of multiple political parties; efforts to establish the State of Guerrero; Puebla; Mexico; Michoacán; Lic. Arizcorreta; Lic. Legorreta's operations in District of Sultepec over mining problems.
Santa Anna's letter, Tehuacán, March 22; his departure from Mexico; Rea's support of Santa Anna; mining litigation in Sultepec. Includes copy, signed Haro, Iguala, April 22, 1848, of letter from Juan Álvarez to Governor Manuel Gracida, Chilapa, April 5, 1848: resignation of Olaguíbel; [Benito] Quijano; Temascaltepec; failure of tax collection system; request for help in establishing State of Guerrero.
Criticism of conduct of U. S. troops in Mexico; Polk's interest in prolonging the war; French Republic celebrated by U.S. troops; differences between Scott and the Commissioners; comparison with Cortés; departure of the Commissioners for Querétaro.
Letter of recommendation for Isac Murrai, owner of a blanket factory.
Letter of recommendation for Deputies Joaquín Zamacona and Pascual Minazán, en route to Querétaro.
Assignment of funds for college; hope for better treatment from new Congress; attack on
Call for prayer for peace; opposition to treaty terms; dissatisfaction in the south; Lusguetti (?).
Request for intercession with Luis de la Rosa to obtain Monte Pío aid for Jacinta Hernández, widow of José María Guizacola, late of the Aduana Marítima de Tampico; Pedraza; Otero; Sierra y Rosso. Riva Palacio addressed as
Alegre; Ignacio Basadre; appointment of Galindo to legation in London; Arizcorreta; Bernardino Alcalde;
Ortiz released by U.S. troops; Payno.
Aid to Tijera; employment of Agustín Ricoy in the Renta del Tobaco; Aguirre; Campuzano.
Appeal to Manuel Gómez Pedraza for financial aid; recommendation for Juan A. Zambrano.
Release of Ortiz; Mier.
Reports of Peace Commissioners on alternatives to the treaty; approval by Congress urged.
Illness of Dolores; family illness; García Torres; Wences.
Illness of Dolores; Colín; installation of Congress; Llera; danger of revolt against moderates on conclusion of treaty.
Weather; wheat crop; corn sent to Chalco for Bartolo; Velázquez; need for lime; Zamora; Julián; Cadena.
French and English periodical subscriptions for the Colegio de San Gregorio; decline in income; interest of Rosa in sciences.
Account of his poverty, illness, and concern for his family; fear for Pilar; earlier employment with the Dirección General del Tabaco; N. Enciso; Crispiniano del Castillo; request for financial aid.
Plans for a National Guard; health of Dolores; Haro.
Health of Dolores; Jesucita; Mariquita Tenorio; Tonchita Zamora; Colín; Herrera [Campos]; Eraso; Vértiz; Muñoz; Cabrera (?); fever at El Moral; Mier; Haro; Méndez Núñez. Includes separate note by F. Herrera.
Health of Dolores; Eraso; Rodríguez; Velázquez; Colín; with note signed by Gregorio.
Transmittal of letter to Rosa; Pavón; difficulty with the mail; Dávila.
Payment by Rosa to Del Río for publication costs.
Purchase of land at public sale; request for aid.
Health of Dolores; Haro; Rodríguez; Garita de Vallejo; hand injury; Robredo; Eraso.
Dolores' illness; Haro; Herrera; Vallejo; Wences; Nicolás; Barajas; Miranda.
Dolores' illness; Rodríguez; Herrera; mail from Mendoza for the Inspector General; Ortiz.
Meeting of the Congress; Rodríguez; Pedraza; Otero; Yáñez; Cardoso; Dolores' illness.
Receipt of gift of shoes; Susana; Eduardito; Asunción; Pacheco.
Re-establishment of National Guard; Torrin; Haro.
Dolores' illness; Herrera; appointment of Comisión inspectora with Salonio, Aranda, Díaz Guzmán, Aguirre, and Rosa (?); Del Río; Adame criticized by Rosa in secret session; Payno; Granja; Muñoz Campuzano; open session proposed by Pacheco; Vicente Romero's motion to limit governmental powers; [Manuel Crescencio] Rejón; Bernardo Flores; [Manuel] Doblado; Guanajuato; [Mariano] Macedo.
Treaty passed to the Comisión de Relaciones; Lacunza; Macedo; Martínez del Río; Anaya's
Otero's project for National Guard; secret session called by Rosa.
Arbitration of dispute over the Mine Santa Anna or Concordia; company name changed to De la Unión; trouble caused by Arizcorreta and Legorreta; monarchy favored by Quijano; U.S. troops in Cuernavaca; opposition of Cuernavaca to erection of State of Guerrero; failure of troops at Tetecala to protect haciendas and roads; Metepec; Neri del Barrio.
Dolores' illness; Bernarda.
Dolores' illness; reluctance of deputies to go to Querétaro; removal of government to Guadalupe or Mexico recommended; plan to go to Europe.
Reorganization of the
Conditions in the capital blamed on
Dolores' health; house rental; Osores.
Arizcorreta;
Letter to Luis Cuevas; opposition to peace settlement; plans for revolt; request for intervention with the U.S. Commissioners for American troops to remain until new government is firmly established; approval of treaty by the Chamber of Deputies.
Request for instructions and guards for receiving Tampico Customs office from withdrawing American authorities; American proposal to turn over $168,000 recently collected.
Treaty approval; strength of
Death of Sinforiano Acosta at hands of Indian band; list of members of the band; other Indian attacks and damage to lands at Michapa, Taxco and Acuitlapan; attack on Atanasio Toledo. The list includes Cristóbal Batalla, Nicolás Mederos, Pedro Mederos, Manuel Espinosa, Francisco Leonardo, Felipe Santiago, José Tranquilino, José Ciriaco, Polito, Anselmo, Dionisio Villalba, José María Pérez, and Juan Oviedo from Michapa and Cacanamilpa.
Rent for Hacienda de la Asunción; Miguel María Martel.
Lawless conditions in the city; recommendation for a commission to accept authority from withdrawing U.S. troops.
Treaty approval; Arizcorreta; opposition of Manuel Andrade; proposed reorganization of the government;
Transmittal of
Fear of uprising in the city; pronunciamiento by Paredes and Domecq; arrival of Salamanca and El cantor de las Kalendas from Europe.
Public approval of ratification of the treaty; fear of revolution in the city; Pedro María Anaya; Torres Torija.
Receipt of pay for deputies; its distribution; Riva Palacio addressed as Presidente de la Comisión de Policía. Includes list of payments totaling $4,672.5 to Eugenio María Aguirre, José María Lacunza, Juan Mirafuentes, Manuel Díaz Zimbrón, José María Cuevas, José María Jiménez, Guillermo Sánchez de la Barquera, Manuel Micheltorena, Mariano Talavera, Juan Zapata, Manuel Zetina Abad, Juan Parra, Fernando Ortega, Ponciano Arriaga, Manuel Crescencio Rejón, Joaquín Vargas, and Mariano Pérez Tagle, representing the states of Coahuila, México, Oajaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, and El Distrito.
Illness in family: Chucha, Pancho, Josefita, Petra, Ramón; Mariquita; Colín; Fonchita; Salomé; house in Coatepec invaded by bandits; Comisario de San Luis; Roberto Mariner; Doloritas; Rosa; Querétaro.
Fear of uprising in city; plan to go to Europe; health of Dolores; Mier.
Fear of uprising in city; wide distribution of weapons;
Illness; Nicolás; Dolores; plans of the
Rangel;
Care for the library; Rosa; military movement out of the city; criminals freed; hope for establishment of firm government; Otero.
Writings of Manuel Crescencio [Rejón]; request for pay from the government; payment to his wife, Calle de la Hóndiga No. 9; Felipe Neri del Barrio. Includes claim for pay.
Congratulations on appointment as President of the Comisiones de Hacienda y Crédito Público; recommendations for use of the $15,000,000 paid Mexico as indemnity; payment of foreign and internal debts; reorganization of the [Renta del] Tabaco and Aduana Marítima; contraband across the Bravo frontier; improvement of roads.
Example of Yucatán in encouraging local Indians to demand more land; distribution of guns received from
Offer of Bonilla of $3,025 for operation of the college instead of the $4,000 promised by the government, refused. Includes copy of answer, repeating the earlier offer; Secretario Isidro Pedro Rafael Gondra.
Payment to Andrés del Río; Impresor Rafael; José María Fagoaga; opposition to publication on scientific and grammatical grounds; Luis de lo Rosa; differences with the Colegio de Minería over funds. Transmittal of correspondence (see no. 2671); Canchola (?).
Discussions with Haro on spending the indemnity; plan for payment of government employees; Dolores; V. Romero.
Transmittal of letter of José María Álvarez (see number 2654); criticism of Quijano's military forces; surrender of criminals; Arista; Revolución de Tlapa; Pronunciamiento by Colonel Florencio Villarreal; Haro; Teloloapam; Cuernavaca; Arellano; Sultepec.
Complaint sent by Major Francisco Morelos of arbitrary action by the Administrador principal de Tabacos; funds sent to Cuautitlán; Fuente; Anaya; fear of Indian uprising; Durán.
Tardiness of Viya, Cosio, and Barrio at meeting; Fuente; Batres; letter from the Administrador de la Aduana marítima de Tampico (see Number 2652).
Desire of Sultepec to join the State of Guerrero; Arizcorreta; difficulty of maintaining order; General José Joaquín Herrera; request for aid.
Difficulties in efforts to refund foreign debt through the firm of Manning and MacKintosh; disorganization of the courts; enlistments in the Guardia nacional; departure of U.S. troops; arrest of Jáuregui and Arteaga; escape of Suárez Iriarte, Buenrostro, and Eligio Romero.
Congratulations on office as Minister of Hacienda; Luis de la Rosa; Pedro Anaya; offer to sell guns, delivered at Veracruz or Tampico; supply of other military equipment; Rondero; Francisco Mora; offer to repair the Palacio; Arroyo; Otero.
Appointment of Otero as Secretario de Relaciones criticized; Cuevas; approval of Arista and Jiménez [Ministro de Justicia];
Detention as prisoner of war; litigation over possession of tobacco shop, No. 22, Calle del Ángel; Vallejo; Pozo.
Efforts of Haro to help establish new state; Chilpancingo.
Request for aid in locating his brother Andrés; Colonel Benito Haro.
Loss of health in the military service; Rosa; Guanajuato; Huichapan, Cuautitlán; Guadalajara; inequality in payments to the disabled; request for payment of pension.
Herrera raised to Presidency; Jarauta; conservative spirit in Cuernavaca; Haro.
Removal of executive offices to the capital; request for pay to enable removal to Mexico; Marcos Arellano.
Request for pension; convalescence from wound received during the siege of Veracruz; criticism of Santa Anna; Farías.
Appointment of Administrador de Tabacos at San Luis Potosí; administration at Saltillo; Coahuila; accusations against José María Domínguez by son of Tornel; Nicolás del Moral; Convento de San Agustín; efforts of Trigueros to have Torrescano appointed; resignation of Rosa; efforts of Mateos to obtain the job; recommendation that Moral remain at the post; property damage at hands of U.S. troops; Brother Pedro recommended for position in Saltillo; request for pay General Mejía; Sandoval; Arista.
Danger of bandit and Indian attack; removal to the capital; San Patricio guard; Lombardini; Gobernador Mesa; difficulty of travel; passage of financial law; Estrella; [Joaquín] Navarro (Navarrito); Yáñez; [José María] Jiménez; Otero.
Arrival of the President; Tlalnepantla; Arroyozarco; movement of furniture; U.S. troops in Tacubaya; Ignacio Palomo.
Request for pay refused.
Regulations for maritime customs collection; Ignacio Sierra y Roso; Antonio Batres; José de la Fuente; J. N. del Barrio; Francisco Álvarez; Juntas de Fomento e Industria; José M. Ruiz of the Dirección General de Rentas; Junta Consultativa; Bernardo Couto.
Appointment of Riva Palacio, Otero, and Herrera; plan to go to Mexico.
Transmittal of letter for Otero.
Offer of use of his house in Coyoacán during travel; Mixcoac; Octaviano Bermontes.
Arrangements made with Arista; Peza.
Difficulty of travel; request for pay.
Collection of alcabalas; Otero; Junta territorial.
Food poisoning at Cuernavaca; delay in interview.
Castilla's interview with General Varela; delivery of money to the Treasury; General Butler; Otero.
Plan for delivery of indemnity money by General Butler; interview with Riva Palacio and Castillo; Jiménez.
Business with Francisco and Cayetano Rubio.
Aid given to Irish defenders of Churubusco; Captain Juan Reilly; increase in ranks of Irish from troops of General Worth; Otero; Jiménez; delay in mail delivery.
Military alert; rumors of danger to the Governor; Jiménez.
Recommendation for Manuel Cortés in his application to purchase goods from English ship at Manzanillo; deliveries at Mazatlán and Guaymas; travel from Colima and Guadalajara; military action at San Juan by forces of Guerra Manzanares.
Recommendation for Manuel Cortés for relief from customs at Manzanillo; insecurity of the roads.
Delon recommended for repair of furniture in government offices.
Complaint of loss of territory by the State of Tamaulipas; recommendation for Juan Martín de la Garza; request for aid in retaining position of brother Victores in the [Renta del] Tabaco.
Conclusion of business with Quijano; General Arista; José Ramón Peza; Herrera; Otero.
Charges of maladministration and contraband against Administrador del Tobaco José Benito de la Llata and his employee Ereno (?); sale of Virginia tobacco; avoidance of the law; collusion with a French subject.
Request for pension as retired major.
Desire to resign; Lorenzo Arroyabe recommended as replacement; Joaquín Noriega.
Receipt of funds from Sandoval, Ministerio de Guerra, for the support of Captain Riley and the San Patricio soldiers; repayment of loan already made.
Congratulations on appointment.
Congratulations on appointment; travel to accept seat as deputy.
Request for military aid against Indian attacks; uprising at Xichu blamed on U.S. influence and agents of Paredes; popularity of term
Order for a certified account of prohibited goods imported during the occupation by U.S. troops.
Transmittal of a request for help.
Uprising led by Paredes and Jarauta; junta de notables called in Guanajuato to elect temporary governor; Otero; Jiménez; Herrera.
Request for funds with which to pay employees; Olmedo.
Request for financial aid to Colonel Pedro Rivera, refugee from the occupied capital, living in San Francisco Acuautla.
Recommendation for Pedro Rivera.
Request for aid to Colonel José Manuel Tornel, Administrador de Tabacos.
Payment of interest; request for interview.
Request for aid in obtaining post as Juez de letras de Teotihuacán through Arizcorreta; Álvarez.
Criticism of government employees except at Mazatlán; mission of Secretary Juan García Rebollo; Santanesco(?).
Ticket for travel to capital traded with Reyes Veramendi; request for pay at residence 25 Calle del Zapo; María Dolores Rodríguez de Zerecero.
Request for pay for Francisco Ocampo.
Mission of Haro to urge establishment of new state; distrust of Arizcorreta; danger of Indian rebellion; mining interests in Sultepec district; German mining company; protection of Prefecto Lorenzo Calderón and Esteban León; interview with General Bravo; distribution of guns received
Proposed substitute for the alcabala; support of Luis de la Rosa; Pavón; Canseco; Sierra; Hierro; Maldonado; Lic. Urbano Fonseca; report of eye affliction.
Appointment as Comisario del Cuerpo de Ejército Bustamante; support of Bustamante in campaign against Paredes in Guanajuato; cousin José R. Malo appointed agent in Mexico; Robles; Querétaro.
Escape from bandits; advance of Jarauta; support of government in Michoacán; pay as Administrador de tabacos; Rosa; Rubio.
Service in army of General Bustamante; defense of Dolores against
Request for payment of loan by Manuel Urquiza to General Filisola's division in Michoacán.
Sale of house impeded by order of Antonio Batres; Rosa; José María Cuevas; request for payment of $12,000.
Dismissal of brother Ángel from post in Veracruz; occupation of the Plaza by U.S. troops; evacuation of archives to Jalapa; return to Veracruz after the armistice.
Request for employment of A. Argandar as
Poor condition of soldiers of San Patricio; sympathy of soldiers with rebels. Embossed design: “T. LEROUX Mexico al Libro Mayor. 1[UNK] C. de Plateros.”
Attack on office by Daniel and a French interpreter; contribution demanded by American General from the Ayuntamiento; re-establishment of Renta del Tabaco; Gamio; tobacco freed of tax; MacKintosh; Manuel Buen Abad; efforts to enforce new regulations.
[Manuel] Doblado's aid to Paredes and Jarauta; defection of Arellano's troops; Fifth Regiment; Cerrogordo; Doblado made governor; disorder in Guanajuato calmed by rain; Xichu; formation of a Foreign Legion recommended; Cortazar; Generals Miñón and Bustamante; Otero; Valle de Santiago; Manuel Álvarez y Godoy; son of Morelos.
Illness during service with General Álvarez; care rendered at the Hacienda [de Asunción]; loan of horse.
Recommendation for Antonio Galván, Secretario del Tribunal mercantil de Tampico. Embossed design as in 2738.
Request for pay for Captain José María Isasi, enroute to post in Tabasco; transmittal of private correspondence of recent president.
Request for appointment of Miguel Casarín in the Dirección de Tabacos; lack of confidence in other employees; local organization of the Guardia nacional; lack of support for the revolution.
Request for payment of salary for work with the Juzgado de letras.
Expenses involved in accompanying son Pascual Camargo in his military service at Cerrogordo and during his detention as prisoner of war at Plan del Río; request for financial aid.
Aduana de Veracruz: General Smith and Mr. Dimond (Diamond?); Aduana de Tampico turned over to Colonel Gates; Aduana de Matamoros turned over to Colonel Davenport; Aduana de Tuxpan; Mr. Chas(e?); Aduana de Mazatlán; Aduana de Guaymas; San José de Guaymas; surrender of accounts and return to Mexican authorities.
Request for funds to support Captain Riley, the San Patricio force, and other deserters from the U.S. troops.
Recommendation for employment of Estanislao del Pino in the Administración de Tabacos de Pátzcuaro; imprisonment in Texas.
Summary of receipts and expenses; General Quijano; General Codallos; Comisario del Ejército Blanco; military expenses; salaries; pensions; administration.
Acceptance of post as Sub-Secretario del despacho de Hacienda.
Military operations of Cortazar and Lombardini; elimination of dissidents from armed forces; Administrador de la fábrica Montañés; Contador Dario Romero; squadron organized to help Paredes; Otero; Jiménez.
Congratulations on appointment.
Recommendation for José María Villalobos, applicant for post in the Aduana de Matamoros.
Request for change in the alcabala system in Colima; Elguero.
Complaint against the climate and people; separationist movement supported by General Cardona; Colonel Francisco (?) Cartagena.
Request for pay for artist Plácido Ochoa for decoration of the Salón presidencial.
Ocampo's report criticizing commercial activities at the port; mission of Custodio Sousa to explain the facts; Villanueva.
Transmittal of document defending himself.
Request for pay due her husband; Mariana Rodríguez Lazarín.
Service as Jefe Superior de Hacienda; replacement by Juan Chávez; Luis Rosa.
Travel to new post in Comisaría de Mazatlán; order of Comandante General Rafael Téllez to leave town; lodging with Andrés Zenteno in Tepic; claim on Batres, Ministro de la Tesorería; request for back pay and employment.
Transmittal of request from friend Guadalupe.
Robber attack on stagecoach; escape to Jalapa; M.M. Pérez; customs receipts; purchase of guns for Yucatán. Embossed design: Shield and crown; letters “Rolland Frères Fabri. Bordeaux.”
System of paying public employees criticized; disorder in public archives.
Request for pension as retired officer; evacuation of Tampico; experience as schoolteacher; local uprisings; re-establishment of Aduanas Marítimas.
Funds due from Manuel M. Pérez; Manuel Villa y Cosío; Hermenegildo; General Smith; Clifford; General Worth; purchase of guns from U.S. troops; inventory of weapons at the Castillo de Ulúa; guns to be sent to Yucatán; refusal to sell guns to individual persons. Includes draft of answer by Riva Palacio, July 8, 1848, authorizing expediture up to $50,000 for guns against account with D.L. Davidson; income due from customs.
Rules of handling incoming ships; recovery of contraband. Includes also copy of letter of June 14 on similar subject.
Request for position in the capital with the government; dissatisfaction with military life.
Request for financial aid; Pilar.
Need for agricultural development of Veracruz State; restrictions on tobacco growing; population of the state; contraband sales; use of tax money; roads between Jalapa, Orizaba, and Veracruz; need for revenue agents; program of crop control; growth of separatist movement in Veracruz; opportunities in Tabasco; study made by the Junta de Fomento de Veracruz.
Recommendation for employment of Manuel Gutiérrez, recently Tesorero in the Renta de Tabaco; service with Cortazar; robbery in Querétaro.
Request for government approval of the
Receipt of letter through Francisco P. Arrangoiz; brother Hermenegildo.
Request for back pay.
List of military organizations and funds allotted; troops in Jalisco, México, Perote; Fábrica de Santa Fe; San Patricio troops; Chapultepec; Alabarderos; Maestranza.
Itemized list, total: $57,127.6.82. Payments for Cuerpo Médico, Engineers, Colegio Militar, Batallón de Zapaderos, Artillería, Compañía de Obreros (México, Perote, Santa Fe), Compañía de infantería mixta, Batallón de San Patricio; Caballería, Depósito de Oficiales, Jefes y Oficiales de Chapultepec, Estado Mayor del Presidente, Supremo Tribunal de la Gracia, Plana Mayor del Ejército, Comandancia General, Alabarderos, Batallón de Inválidos, Comisaria del Distrito. Travel of troops to Puebla and Querétaro.
Opposition to rebellion in Guanajuato; support of new government; resignation refused; Deputy Luis Fernández del Campo.
Beginning of Bustamante's attack on Paredes' troops in Guanajuato; rebellion linked with uprising in Guadalajara in May; Herrera; Mariano Otero.
Transmittal of request for aid for widow of Delmotte.
Itemized list of government officials, totaling $57,011.3.4 for Secretaría, Senators, Deputies, Ministers, Contaduría mayor, President, Tesorería general, widows, Cesantes y jubilados, Contaduría de propios, Archivo general, porteros, Relojero de Palacio, Exclaustrados, Artillery, and General Felipe Codallos.
Proposed five-year contract with the government; cancelled contract of December 15, 1847; Rubio.
Watermark: PAPEL SELLADO.
Proposed contract with government for administration of la Renta del Tabaco; contract of May 2 in Querétaro.
Request for interview concerning late husband's property at No. 15, Calle de Montealegre. Includes undated draft of reply arranging interview; Convento de San Bernardo.
Progress of siege of Guanajuato.
Historical summary of the collection of income by the Renta de Tabacos in different political periods; prices in Chihuahua and Durango; request that the state share in the income.
Copy of letter from Cortazar to Governor of Guanajuato Arellano on progress of siege of Guanajuato; popular support of Paredes in Guanajuato; request for aid from neighboring states; need for funds; Bustamante's need for ammunition. Includes summary of letter for office use.
Request for employment of his father, José María Pérez y Callejo, previously Contador de la Comisaría General de Yucatán; help of Rosa and Peña y Peña; Yucatán rebellion.
Danger of spreading revolt if Bustamante's attack on Paredes fails; Guardia nacional; Bustamante's refusal of troops from Zacatecas and Jalisco; need for weapons; use of San patricios; Otero; approaching session of Congress; illness of Guadalupita; Tula; Hernández; Manuelita.
Fear of losing position in the Renta de Tabacos; request for special consideration.
Request for interview to discuss property settlement; Vicario capitular.
Itemized list of expenses involving Leonel Davidson, Guillermo Drusina, Fernando Pockls, MacKintosh, Butler, arms and ammunition at Querétaro and Mexico, Cayetano Rubio, Francisco Herrera, Cámara de Diputados, Comisaría del Estado de México, Pedro Vuanue, Miguel Tentori, Colegiata de Guadalupe, Legations, Armamento Valdivielso.
Request for continuation in employment; opposition of Manuel Buen Abad; Ortega's handicap.
Difficulty of co-operating with Arizcorreta; Distrito de Sultepec; Metepec; opposition to creation of Guerrero State; 8th Cavalry Regiment; request for help of Luciano Cantú of the Tesorería general, to be paid by the Customs at Acapulco; movement to Taxco to watch over revolutionary spirit in Taxco and Sultepec; offer of military aid against Paredes; Francisco Ocampo's complaints against employees of the Aduana marítima at Acapulco; charges against Mariano Miranda; Lic. José María Inclán, Juez de Letras in Acapulco.
Recommendation for continuation of Pablo Sánchez and Mariano Monedero in office of the Administración de Tabacos in San Miguel de Allende.
Promise of employment by Peña y Peña; loss of arm in Battle of El Molino del Rey; position as Escribiente oficial del Archivo sought; Querétaro.
Request for back pay; travel to Oaxaca; appointment of Colonel Manuel Peláez as Comandante General; Senator Manuel Larrainzar; opposition to the appointment as against the interests of Chiapas and control of contraband.
Funds to be turned over to the Commissioners from Yucatán; hope of gaining sympathy for the republic.
Funds received from the customs; efforts of contrabandists to keep custom in U.S. hands; Pérez; Clifford; Di[a]mond; fear that José Arrillaga's trip from Jamaica to New Orleans was to gather adventurers for attack on Tamaulipas; defenselessness of coast from Río Bravo to Yucatán; Guardia nacional; fear of Paredes' victory at Guanajuato; fortification of Jalapa, Las Joyas, and road to Orizaba; Tampico; Matamoros; purchase of warships. Includes copy of letter from New Orleans concerning plan to establish a “República de Sierra Madre” supported by hacendados; enlistment of General Shields and American soldiers.
Efforts to locate a report concerning the conversion of the national debt; Navarro.
Concern over rumored dismissal; Manuel and Hermenegildo de Villa.
Request for payment of pension.
Congratulations on appointment.
Charge of insubordination; replacement by Ramón García; criticism of General Álvarez; criticism of García; friendship with Ribera, Tárate, and Vieyra; Querétaro newspaper;
Arrival of Arrillaga from New Orleans and Jamaica; his plans for an uprising; withdrawal of military recommended; Ulúa; cultivation of tobacco; import of cotton; promises made in Guanajuato and Jamaica; Jalapa; departure for the U.S.; need for funds; rumors of American soldiers approaching Yucatán and Chiapas.
Request for payment of debt owed Barron Forbes & Cía. as arranged between Jorge Best and the Supremo Gobierno in Querétaro.
Request for information on date for beginning Mexican control of customs at Veracruz; cargo from New Orleans brought by brother Antonio Castañón.
Request for payment of funds due his father, Colonel Francisco Barroeta; efforts to collect from the Ayuntamiento; Governor Trig[u]eros; Contador de Ayuntamiento Ignacio Domíng[u]ez; illness; danger of losing his lands.
Request for aid in obtaining pension through the Renta del Tabaco.
Recommendation for payment to José Manuel Pardo for period of leave granted during illness from work with the Customs at Matamoros; Peña; Cuevas.
Alternative arrangements for payment of rent on the Hacienda del Moral; albaceazgo de Juan F. López; Antonio Bas[s]oco; José María Bas[s]oco; Convento de la Encarnación; Hacienda de Comalco; Fincas de los Monacales; Tejada, mayordomo.
Receipt of goods from China; Miguel Lerdo de Tejada; Francisco Lerdo de Tejada; arrival of Chilean ship
Request to be continued in his post with the Customs; tax on cotton; permission to unload ships at any port.
Request for aid in obtaining pay promised.
Support for new state of Guerrero.
Loan by Antonio Fuentes to the Tesorería del Ejército; claim for payment; General Bustamante; Herrera; paisano [P.F. del] Castillo of the Tesorería general.
Manuel Doblado made Governor by a Junta de Notables selected by Paredes; support of Paredes by Guadalajara; Yáñez' march to Lagos; danger of sansculotismo.
Consolidation of forces of Bustamante, Muñoz, Yáñez, and Pedro Cortazar;
Pronunciamiento in Taxco for new state of Guerrero; Vildosola; opposition to Vieyra, Mier, and
Recommendation for Francisco Valenzuela.
Request for financial aid; Querétaro.
Concern for the welfare of his son Blas.
$2,000 paid Francisco de P. Arrangoiz by order of Administrador de la aduana marítima Manuel María Pérez; funds sent to England on the packet
Freedom of imports allowed under U.S. occupation; instruction for re-establishing controls; watch for contraband.
Transmittal of letter to Otero through Vicente Rodríguez.
Defeat of rebel forces; amnesty recommended to end executions; Vicente Rodríguez; death of brother-in-law from stray bullet.
Employment recommended for Mateos; service with Secretaría de Hacienda, Departamento de Cu[a]utla; Dirección general de alcabalas; Aduana marítima de Matamoros; Administración Principal de alcabalas del Estado de San Luis; Piña y Cuevas; surrender of
Uprising in Taxco; Iguala; Haro; troubles blamed on Paredes and Arizcorreta; threat of Indian uprising; Quijano; reduction of the Comandancia del Sur by transferring area beyond the Mescala to the Comandancia General de México.
Services to the government; Comandancia del resguardo de Veracruz; Eleuterio Méndez(?); Calle de Cordovanes, 6.
Request for employment of brother Manuel in the Aduana marítima de Veracruz or in Tampico; considerations of health; Antonio María Salonio; defeat of rebels at Guanajuato.
Efforts of Arizcorreta to discredit movement for the state of Guerrero; purchase of weapons; influence on military leaders.
Request for continued separation of Aguascalientes from the Department of Zacatecas; growth of population and ability to exist independently; decline in community of interests with Zacatecas; Tomás L. Pimentel; Lic. Francisco X. Belaunzarán.
Service as deputy; congratulations on appointment.
Illness of Dolores Mascareñas; delivery of coal.
Defense of Mexico City; work with a pulquería and manufacture of cigars; support of Vicente Guerrero; Manuel Reyes Veramendi; General Ing. Martínez.
State's concern with roads, schools, and defense preparations; funds received to aid Chiapas; dissidents in Tabasco; defeat of Paredes; income from the Renta de Tabacos.
Rent on house at No. 3, Barrio de la Concepción(?), estate of Vicente Guerrero.
Study of the national debt; Aduana de Yucatán; Aduana de Tampico; replacement of the alcabala; estimate of income needed.
Freedom of imports provided under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; inventory required of imported goods in customs offices as result of trade carried on during the occupation; watch for illegal importation.
Opposition to appointment of José Monedero to the Administración de Tabacos; order of August 1847 for government employees not to remain in occupied places; assistance in the Administración de Acámbaro; Calle de plateros; Botica de Victorica, operated by Don Justo; Juan J. Piña.
Payment of rent; Cuevas; Chalco.
Unfriendly attitude of the government and press. Includes draft of answer, dated July 30, denying any feeling of hostility.
Request for advance of pension to Eduardo Rodríguez to pay for wife's funeral.
Preparation of report on imports, by Drusina.
Request for money to come to the capital to function as deputy.
Request for employment of José Pagasa in the Aduanas marítimas.
Preparation of report on national budget; interest on national debt; Contribuciones directas; Junta de Fomento; Fondo Judicial. Includes study entitled
Request for advance in pay; illness; illness of wife.
Offices to be established by Comisario general José Vallarta.
Itemized list involving Sale of tobacco, Guardia de Policía, Hospital de Sangre de San Hipólito, Hospital de San Pablo, Jardín Botánico, Archivos públicos, payments to prisoners of war, La Acordada, Presidio de Santiago, account books, Hospital del Divino Salvador, Hospicio de Pobres, Compañía Lancasteriana, public instruction, Archivo del Congreso, Escribano Ramón de la Cueva, Interpreter Ballard, repair of bridges, Tribunal de Guerra y Marina, Francisco Ontiveros (Comisario de obras de la Nación), Félix, Galindo, Tranquilino de la Vega, Lasquetti, Lic. Anastacio Zerecero, Juan Aguilar, Francisco Aguilar, Tribunal de Cuentas, Batallón de Independencia, Artillería de Mina, Batallón de Bravo, Batallón de Hidalgo, Batallón de Victoria, Compañía de San Patricio, Guardia Nacional, General [José María] Jarero [y Ruiz?], Colonel Flores, Rinconada de San Diego, Laurent, Mixcoac, Frisard, Tacubaya, Kell, Ingeniero Moxo, Barroso, Mixto de Infantería, Canal de Texcoco, Alejandro Ruiz, Hospital de San Lázaro, and individual payments for food, salary, rugs, vehicles, pensions, and services.
Itemized list, involving salaries of officials, gastos secretos, Fomento de periódicos, Palace lighting, printing, legations, loans, Guardia Nacional, Aduana marítima, Contaduría de propios, Desagüe de Huehuetoca, Montepío, Manning & MacKintosh, state operations in Querétaro, Jalisco, Durango, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla, Yucatán, and San Luis Potosí; General Bustamante; Ejército del Norte; Compañía de San Patricio; A. Bellange; J.M. Lasquetty, occupation costs; Ramel(?) Laforgué; purchase of arms; José Antonio Suárez, generals, retired lieutenant colonels; Supremo Tribunal de la Guerra; Comisión de Estadística militar.
List of expenses: [Renta del] Tabaco; money sent to San Luis, Durango, Puebla, Guadalajara, Guanajuato; Vergara. Embossed design as in 2738.
Itemized list, involving Montepío Civil, Jubilados, pensions, Escuela de Medicina, Colegio de San Ildefonso, Colegio de San Juan de Letrán, Hospicio de pobres, Manuela Zavaleta, Niños expósitos, Supremo Tribunal, Comandancia general, Plana Mayor del Ejército, Estado mayor.
Itemized list involving payments to officials, Archivo general, Contaduría de Propios, Relojero de palacio, Ignacio de la Barrera, Piquero, Ituarte; Corte marcial letrada, Colegiata de Guadalupe, Aduana marítima, ministries, and Poder Judicial.
Payment to Ignacio Montes de Oca; Nava; Núñez.
Request payment to Comandante de Batallón José Alfaro for son's funeral expenses.
Request for payment to Eugenio Vildosola (Vildo-Solá?).
Acknowledgement of interview appointment.
Delay in preparation of budget; Corte de Justicia; Tesorería general; Senado; Echeverría.
Cultivation of beans; funds from El Moral; use of dam; illness of Dolores Mascareñas; Dr. Carlos; Villanueva; Cadena.
Request for back pay for employees of Los Correos extraordinarios de la Renta.
Request for employment for Manuel Jimeno, ex-Lieutenant in the Resguardo.
Services of Lazo in uprising led by Antonio Palacios Miranda at Mazatlán; imprisonment of Lazo by Comandante General del Estado, Jefe de la División de Occidente Juan Pablo Anaya; efforts to secure his release; concern over his employment in the Customs; Sister Juanita; Wife Luisita; M. H. y Maldonado.
Work on Chalco canal; petition by citizens of Tlahuac; Juan Miguel García; interference of [Juan] Hierro; the Álvarez will; Rancho de Jico.
Plan for re-organizing the Renta del Tabaco;
Transmittal of letter from Mazatlán (No. 2863?).
Request for replacement to allow travel to Mexico; Cousin Malo; concern for reimbursement for lands in Texas given his father.
Preparation of budget; Corte de Justicia.
Request for continuance in office at the Administración de Tabacos; newspaper announcements of change in administration; Colín.
Restoration of order in Taxco; differences with Arizcorreta; reprisals in Sultepec.
Request for position in the Aduana marítima in Matamoros, replacing Navor Días Zeledor; Llanes; pension due in Jalapa.
Request for partial pay during settlement of employment readjustment; position as Comandante del resguardo de Alcabalas; Arista; Jiménez; Reigadas(?); [Juan José?] Elorriaga; news of son's death during Indian attack in Durango.
Arizcorreta's dissatisfaction with Riva Palacio's support of Álvarez attitude toward the uprising in Taxco; Sultepec; Zacualpan;
Correction of error in budget.
Request for increase in
Prices of corn and coal; delivery by canoe.
Notes on receipts; some undated. Reference to: Hargow (Hargrove?); Veracruz; Martínez del Campo; Tacubaya.
Itemized list, involving military expenses, Colegio militar, Artillería, Artillería fija de Jalisco, Compañía de obreros, Cuerpo médico militar, Inválidos, Infantería, Caballería, Ingenieros civiles, pensions, Compañía de San Patricio, Alumbrado de Chapultepec.
Failure of government to supply states with tobacco for sale.
Request for advance in pay for Eduardo Rodríguez to meet expenses of wife's funeral.
Corrections in budget estimates; Renta del Tabaco; aduanas fronterizas.
Request for promotion to Comandante de Batallón or position in the Ministerio de Hacienda; long service as captain.
Request for employment for Francisco de Paula Lamego; convalescence.
Illness at Irapuato; request for intervention with Iturbide for funds to continue cure.
Request for continuation of loans to the Renta del Tabaco; Vicente Sosa.
Transmittal of letter asking for help for the widow Sra. Guisasola; Elguero.
Invitation for Riva Palacio to attend meeting of the Comisión de Hacienda of the Chamber of Deputies to discuss the Renta del Tabaco.
Recommendation for employment of Fernández de San Salvador in the Promotoría fiscal transmitted through Marcos Leparza (Esparza?).
Conference between Haro and Arizcorreta; arrest of Esteban León and Lorenzo Calderón of Zacualpan for slander of Arizcorreta before the Ayuntamiento and Guardia nacional; transfer of Rangel recommended; insecurity of mails; growth of
Suggested reforms in the administration of customs; office staff needed; remissions to the Tesorería general.
Request for meeting before interview with Clifford; troops in Coahuila and Chihuahua.
Efforts to evict renter from house purchased from the government; Cuevas; death of brother-in-law during recent fighting; damage to store.
L. Villamil referred to Riva Palacio; Haro [y Tamariz]; work of the Ecclesiastical committee of the Chamber of Deputies.
Rumors of surrender of Renta de Tabacos to private business; concern for son's position.
Son of [Gregorio] Gómez recommended to be prefecto de Taxco; Herrera's disinclination to visit Sultepec; conference with Arizcorreta.
Recommendation for employment of José María Chávez in the Aduana de Tampico.
Services as military engineer; appointment by Santa Anna; work with roads in Acapulco area; services at Chapultepec; request for back pay.
Services as
Effect of decree of June 14; irregularities in salaries; increase in public debt; aduanas marítimas; copper export; indemnity for lost territory; payment under Treaty of Guadalupe by United States; contract of July 19, 1847; purchase of arms; debt of Ayuntamiento de México during North American occupation; help sent to State of Yucatán; money sent to Europe to pay legations and purchase arms; $25,000,000 owed in back pay; creditors invited to present claims in effort to establish amount of internal debt; law of October 25, 1821 issued by Junta Provisional Gubernativa; order of February 22, 1826; Comisarios generales to keep accounts of debts; contract for income of tobacco; Memoria of Rosa in 1845; contraband tobacco; proposal for Contribución directa; alcabalas; funds needed for public security and hospitals; effect of occupation of ports by North American troops; decrease in tax on glass panes; protection of national factories; import duty at Veracruz;
Request for employment of Pedro Escudero with the Aduana marítima; emigration from Yucatán to Campeche by the Independence party; son's employment in the Ministerio de Relaciones.
Loss of wife; illness; appointment to Zacatecas as Magistrado;
Transmittal of a list of employees of the government; loss of list for the Aduanas fronterizas de Comitán and Tonalá.
Resignation of Riva Palacio; Flores; Herrera; Robredo's account of the circumstances; arrangement with Cardoso to place Riva Palacio on leave, then report him ill.
Dismissal of José María Garay as
Arrangements for pay for employees at Acuautla. Includes draft of answer, August 25 recommending use of alcabala; Pasalug[]; certificate; Chalco.
Regrets over Riva Palacio's resignation; inclination not to continue without him; complications caused by the contract for the Renta del Tabaco; lack of confidence in his successor; Valentín [Gómez Farías?]; difficulties with Congress foreseen; Herrera.
Regrets over resignation; difficulties in the Ministerio de Hacienda foreseen. Embossed design: 2 rectangles with BATH.
Arrival in Guanajuato delayed by the Paredes rebellion; Salgado; payment of debt, delivered by Béistegui; limited recommendation for Manuel Olloqui; ill weather; delay in the mail; Pedro María Anaya; leniency with rebels; plan to come to Mexico.
Order for suspension of pay; arrangements with Sosa; request for special consideration.
Criticism of Riva Palacio's sudden resignation; rumor of personal interest in the contract for the Renta del Tabaco; offer of continued friendship.
Thanks for aid in favorable legislation passed by the Chamber of Deputies; Asunción.
Cumplido urged to finish printing the
Acceptance of post as Administrador de Tabacos in Orizaba; publication of the
Delivery of [char]coal; transmittal of letter through Pascacio; deliveries by canoe compared with wagon transport; Carvajal; Axalco. Includes another message, same signature, on delivery of coal; Juan Núñez. Embossed design with initials A.C.
Rental of house in Calle de Montealegre; tile for the patio.
Efforts of Zacatecas to incorporate Aguascalientes in its authority; Lieutenant Gelor; Luciano (Casiano?) Veina; General Manuel Arteaga; Jefe Político Atanasio Rodríguez; result of elections; opposition of Marcos Esparza and public opinion; Pro-Santa Anna feeling; need for troops. Writer identified as “uno del 6 de Dbre en S. Francisco.”
Wounds suffered at Battle of Cerrogordo; Palo Alto; Resaca; Monterrey; Angostura; 40 Regimiento de Infantería de Linea; service as temporary captain; request for pension.
Completion of work on the budget.
Request for promotion from office of Portero Contador de Moneda de la Tesorería Departamental to that of
Contains three parts:
Itemized list. Casas: Chihuahua, Durango, Guadalajara, Guadalupe y calvo, Guanajuato, México, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas. Total: $14,846,444.1.3.
Itemized list. Reference to: food; wood; jewels; records at Veracruz; Guaymas; comparison with 1844.
Revenue sources: “Comercio esterior qe. recaudan las Ad[uan]as marítimas y fronterisas,” “Comercio interior qe. recaudan las Ad[uan]as respectivas de la Republica,” “propiedades, rentas y giros y otros ramos de ingreso,” also Rentas y ramos de giro, Ramos de reintegro y de balance, Recursos estraordinarios, and Ramos de depósito. Also: Aduanas marítimas de Veracruz and Santa Anna de Tamaulipas; amortization of debt to English subjects; loans; Tribunales mercantiles; Casa de Inválidos; Instrucción pública; Papel sellado; Lotería; Presidio in Departamento de Puebla; direct contributions; Minas del Fresnillo; comparison with 1844; armament purchased from Juan Manuel Lasqueti and F. de Lizardi y Cía.; Montgomery Nicod y Cía; Aduana marítima de Guaymas, Matamoros, Mazatlán, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz; Administración de alcabalas, Departments of México, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas. Total: $11,594,328.1.0.
Objections listed: Employees' competence; grillwork; hours of service; arrangement of notices of letters awaiting delivery; location of mailboxes; home delivery; bookkeeping system; qualifications of postmen.
Proposal for a law regulating the trial of charges against employees of the Renta del Tabaco by a Tribunal de Circuito; system of appeal; enforcement of decisions.
Handling of funds from the U.S. through MacKintosh. Draft of a longer communication.
Discussion with Iturbe on the Renta de Tabacos; Escandón's proposal; income during Spanish period.
Authority for signing private contract; $125,000 monthly due on English debt; inability of government to collect revenue during occupation period; reorganization of the Renta del Tabaco in states of Puebla, Veracruz, México, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas; payment to tobacco growers; advantages of a contractual authority; danger in foreign importation of tobacco; four months' delay in implementing the law; regular payments to the government; importation of paper; guarantees given by contracting company; danger of fraud; dignity of the government.
Legislative proposal for reorganizing the Renta del tabaco; twelve proposed articles governing the contract.
Need for strict vigilance of border at Matamoros; widespread contraband trade along Río Bravo; population growth along river.
Proposed legislation for placing national income on a contractual basis with one or more companies to provide an income of three million; preservation of laws, tariffs, and decrees; responsibility for employees; exclusion of foreigners.
Proposed legislation for reorganizing the Junta de crédito público for controlling national income; provisions of proposed contracts; public debt.
Proposed legislation restricting border trade; establishment of customs check points inside the national territory; division of income with states.
Proposed legislation reducing government expenses to eight million pesos per year.
Proposed legislation limiting public debt; arancel de aduanas marítimas y fronterizas.
Draft of fiscal policy. Reference to: Previous legislation; Miguel Arroyo; increase in number of government employees since Independence; salaries; improvement in mail service; mail service compared with pre-Independence times; Morelia; Guadalajara; Zacatecas; San Luis; improvements by the Conde del Venadito; mail extended to Durango; increase in printed matter; cost of coaches; Campeche; reoganization of the Contaduría; Norberto Molina, emigrado de Campeche; legal precedents; charge for house delivery of mail; publication of the discussion recommended.
Decree prepared for the President, with plan for consolidation of the public debt; appointment of a junta by the Ministro de Hacienda to study the efficiency of the present organization of government offices; establishment of commissions in the states and territories for the same purpose; assembly of list of claimants for pensions; claims against the government from pre-Independence days; bookkeeping system prescribed; legislation on payments; reports.
Decree prepared for the president for reorganization of the fiscal system; preparation of the budget; suspension of payments not included in the budget; bookkeeping system prescribed. Incomplete: items 6 and 7 missing.
Draft with corrections. Review of past fiscal policy; re-establishment of revenue system; foreign debt; aduanas marítimas; payments made under the Treaty of Guadalupe; itemized list of expenses; aid to the Ayuntamiento de México; purchase of arms; aid to Yucatán; support of foreign legations; accumulation of back pay of government employees; efforts of the Junta provisional gubernativa to consolidate government debts; legal background; difficulty of controlling contraband; effect of invasion on consumption of Tobacco; need for tax on tobacco; contribuciones directas; alcabalas; need for street improvement; need for separating the municipal treasury from the national fiscal arrangements; abolition of unnecessary offices.
Return of occupied ports of Veracruz, Tampico, Matamoros, Tuxpan, Mazatlán, and Guaymas, with dates; efforts to establish regulations; control of prohibited goods; duties on porcelain and glassware; protection of cotton factories; Junta de aranceles; amortization of foreign debt; difficulty of controlling navigable rivers; Renta del Tabaco; need for reducing expenses.
Junta de fomento; establishment of internal revenue system; exemption of sales of pulque, meat, beer, and bread; Junta mercantil; contribuciones directas; Cuerpo de Celadores.
Itemization of necessary expenses for prisons, hospitals, Presidio de Santiago, public instruction, arbitrios, Ramo de Harinas, Ramo de pulque fino, Ramo de Tlachique, Ganado vacuno, liquor, Canal exterior, Ramo de diversiones públicas, Ramo de Propios, Fondo municipal.
Litigation over waters of the Sierra Nevada; Municipalidad de Ozumba; Municipalidad de Ameca; Riva Palacio; Hacienda de Asunción; Hacienda de Archicofradía; revision of land titles; rights given Ameca and Tenango by Virrey Velasco; Luis Maya; Tlalmanalco; realengas; Lorenzo de Tejada, Oidor de la Real Audiencia; introduction of wheat-growing in the Provincia de Chalco; Juan de Vera, first owner of Hacienda de Buenavista, later Archicofradía; Hacienda de Tamariz' rights to use of the water; efforts of viceroys to prevent flooding of Mexico; Lago de Chalco.
Loan from Casa de Barclay; Sebastián Camacho; [Vicente] Rocafuerte's loan to Colombia; [Herring,] Richardson [& Co.]; sale of bonds.
Moreno de Tejada's contract with President Paredes; Monetario del Conde del Peñasco;
Five conditions: payment of $3,000,040 monthly to the government; payments made in Querétaro and Guanajuato; receipt of indemnity from the U.S. government. Apparently draft of contract with Arcinas (Drusina?); Escandón; Bringas & Cía.
General statement of subjects to be studied.
Form for surrender of unspecified amount;
Sum surrendered by Dimond to Mexican customs authorities; Francisco Arrangoiz; Drusina.
No continuity; no identification. Apparently scratch paper. References: Muñoz Ledo; Guanajuato; ayuntamiento; deposits with Davidson, MacKintosh, Garruste, Jamieson(?).
Regret over Riva Palacio's resignation; refusal of state congress to accept his resignation as governor.
Request for certificate of exemption from taxes; Asunción; Jurisdicción de Chalco.
Request for position in the resguardo marítimo; aid of Deputy Yáñez.
Haro; Dueñas; Calle de Santa Clara; Villamis (Villamil?).
Illness; Cueva; Señora Nava; will of Montes de Oca; Pe. Martel; Juan Acosta; financial affairs.
Cost of cleaning pictures compared with price of new ones.
Newspaper accounts of the resignation;
Promulgation of decree of the Congreso del Estado de México, providing for issue of bonds in payment for certain debts of the state; regulations on use of the bonds. Authenticated by Eulogio Barrera, Diputado presidente, and Simón Guzmán and Joaquín Jiménez, diputados secretarios, and by Manuel de Olmedo, Secretario de Hacienda.
Storage and sale of corn; need for coal.
Refusal to occupy seat in Congress; support of Santa Anna; search for mercury mine; Mina de Santa María; rate of production.
Support of clerical request by Senate and Chamber; message to Rome; Piña; L. Verdugo.
Visit with Rodríguez Puebla and Otero; preparation of house for rent; appointment of Manuel Piña y Cuevas as Ministro de Hacienda; criticism of his resignation.
Request for legal services as Juez arbitrio in handling his father's will.
Request for legal services as arbiter; Manuel; Antonio; Banegas.
Payment promised by Velázquez; Cadena; receipt of money from José Arcinas; Cayetano; Pepe Colín; coal; Señora Ampudia; Chalco; Julián; chimney repairs; carpenter work needed.
Suggestion for revenue measure to replace the alcabala;
Communication with Juan Álvarez; Acapulco; Encarnación; delivery of cattle; Manuel Parra; Mariano Parra; Garibay.
Difficulties with Colín and the carpenter; Julián; beating by Colín.
Printed broadside promulgating decree of the Congreso del Estado de México of October 16, 1848, authenticated by Teodoro Riveroll, diputado presidente, José del Villar y Bocanegra and Simón Guzmán, diputados secretarios, providing for separation of part of its territory for the formation of the State of Guerrero, releasing districts of Taxco, Chilapa and Acapulco; division of debts; survey of new boundaries by Tomás Ramón del Moral. Authenticated by Manuel de Olmedo.
Establishment of commission by the State of Mexico to study separation of Guerrero State; requirement for agreement of Michoacán and Puebla; aid of Riva Palacio in Toluca requested; uprising in Tlapa settled; Villarreal blamed; complaint to Otero; Riva Palacio called
Receipt of $166 from nephew José María Garrido Vicuña; Ana María de Alba; peaje del camino de Perote a Veracruz. Includes further receipts by Joaquina de los Cobos de Heaven and Juana maría Guadalupe de Iriarte; Juan Vicuña.
Receipt for $111 in name of Josefa de Alba y Negrete and Refugio de Alba, children of Juan Felipe de Alba; residence in Guadalajara; José María Garrido Vicuña; Ana María de Alva; peaje del camino de Perote a Veracruz; Juan Vicuña.
Request for legal services in collecting debt from Juan María Casaflores for the capellanía and from Ignacio Madrid in the name of [] García.
Gift of
Note on study with hope of winning prize; Blas; Julián.
Letter to José H. Elguero; rent on Hacienda de Atoyac; Velázquez.
Examination of Hacienda de Atoyaque; Vivanco; Garrido; illness of Manuelita's son with tumor.
Publication of decree of the Congreso General, signed José María de Lacunza, Presidente de la Cámara de Diputados, Pedro García Conde, Presidente del Senado, Manuel Muñoz, diputado secretario, Manuel Robredo, senador secretario, and promulgated by José Joaquín de Herrera to Mariano Otero; by Otero to Flores, Gobernador del Distrito Federal; Secretary Lic. José María Zaldívar; scholarship to the Colegio de San Gregorio.
Dicision for the Ayuntamiento to adopt José Gabriel Rodríguez in case of incapacitation of his father Rector Juan Rodríguez Puebla.
Instructions given Granadas; sale of corn, wheat, and coal; Don Tirso; Velázquez; Rodríguez Puebla. Draft of a letter to be written.
Transmittal of account of Hilario Rivero, to be collected; efforts of Juan de Dios Núñez to collect debt; illness of Juanito Higuera.
Regrets over the death of Rodríguez; arrangement for tutoring by Vallejo.
Pay for printing death notices for Rodríguez; Antonio Icaza; Colegio [de San Gregorio]; Senate.
Loan from Moral; bean harvest; sale of corn in Chalco, San Bartolo, and to Rubio; care of the wheat; painting of the floors and walls; Luis; Cadena; Julián.
Introduction to brother Joaquín. Includes draft of answer.
Transmittal of proposed transfer to Lionel Davidson of funds left in the Aduana marítima de Tampico at the end of the occupation; advice requested; interest claimed; fee claimed by José Best; Jorge Best of Lameyer & Co.; has discussion and recommendation by Riva Palacio, November 28, 1848.
Recommendation requested for Cura José Silvestre Hernández to the curato de Tetecala, Mazatepec, Tlalquiltenango, or Xochitepec, in the State of México; letters for Irisarri.
Appointment of J. S. Hernández; Rodríguez Puebla.
Blessing of the chapel; Don Ángel. Has notes on back, referring to P. Germán; Javier Echeverría; Otero; Pedraza; Viuda de Obregón Soto(?); Villar; Zamo[] Icaza; Antonio Lunes (Lares?); Serafín(?) Elguero; manuscript of Garrido; Junta de peaje.
Transmittal of gift.
Request for aid in obtaining facilities for travel to the capital; illness; herpes; residence in San Juan del Río; Barberi; Huissi; Junta de Fomento; Minería.
Receipt for subscription to
Powers request by Tesorero Antonio Batres in handling deposit with Manning & MacKintosh; request for decision on proper procedure; Querétaro.
Request for collection of debt owed by Madrid and Flores; transmittal of fee. Includes note by Riva Palacio.
Death of one member of the family; illness of Pepe; trip to Veracruz for baths recommended by [Dr.?] Robredo; symptoms; request for financial aid for trip; Lic. Mier; Vieyra; will of Tomás Santiváñez; Agustín; travel costs; Calle de la Acequia; [Dr.?] Gutiérrez.
Request for influence with Manuel Escandón and MacKintosh to favor his election to the vacancy in the Minería board; possible resignation of Bassoco; Junta electoral; Fondo dotal; candidacy of Ramón Pacheco; Tornel; Segura.
Moving of orange and pine trees; Arzinas; Antonio Icaza; Nicolás; Rodríguez Puebla's purchases in Europe; Maneyro; Padre Sollano; moving of books; Echeverría; Guadalajara; Velarde; Durango; Beldy; González; return of Riva Palacio to Asunción.
Request for payment for coffee purchased; Pedro Valdés. Includes draft of answer, December 17, referring claim to Pascasio Echeverría for payment.
Payment to Antonio Méndez, Cristalería de la Calle de la Monterilla; Granada; San Martín; removal of family to Asunción; care of house in the capital; letter for Ceferino Barajas, Calle del Hospicio de San Nicolás; Sra. Lozalla, widow of Rodríguez Puebla; Dolores.
Need for work on the canal; order of the Prefecto de Texcoco.
Election of Riva Palacio and Gamboa as
Invitation to attend meeting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 26th; legal penalty for missing. Includes draft of answer, declining.
Request for intervention of Riva Palacio with the Montepío for pension as widow of Colonel Francisco Hernández.
Request for support for candidacy of Atilano Sánchez as Propietario de los acreedores de Minería; resignation of Bassoco; Canónigos Poza and de la Fuente; Tercer orden de San Francisco; Convento de Corpus; Ramón Pacheco. Includes also draft of letter to Sánchez, same subject.
Election to the Junta de fomento y administrativa de minería; candidates Marcos Esparza, Francisco Lelo de Larrea, Lucas Alamán; influence on public instruction; Guanajuato represented by Godoy; support of Alamán.
Election of Riva Palacio to the Senate; meeting of the Congress.
Candidacy of Cura Epigmenio Salamanca to the curato de San Gregorio dropped; letter to Irisarri; Tetela del Volcán; request for intervention with Irisarri.
Candidacy of Atilano Sánchez referred to José Madrigal; Bassoco.
Papers left with Cumplido; letter for Soto left with León; Coyoacán; Arizcorreta; activity of
Appointment as Comandante de Seguridad pública in Sochitepec, District of Cuernavaca; request for aid in punishing a thief. Part of sheet missing.
Proposal for establishment of a Junta for public administration of funds; discription of work; concern for indemnity paid by the U.S.; decree of November 17, 1848.