Consultation with virrey re: payment for goods; fabrication of jarras de cobre for polvora storage; replacement of Sierra by Morant as capellan on paquebot San Carlos; purchase of polvora for defense of ships sailing to San Diego; return of clerk Escovar following recuperation; remission of review of expenses in San Blas for January; factors that have impeded scheduled launch of fragata Santiago and paquebot San Carlos. (D. Uhlman, November 1988)

Letter assessing conduct of Gonzalez de Santianes as military official as related to promotion to interim governor. Requests salary appropriate to new office. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

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

Concerns mining operations, gunpowder trade and distribution, tobacco trading policies. Devis appointed administrator of gunpowder; Palacio as Mariscal del Campo. Gunpowder dispatched to 123 Plazas of the squadrons of Nuevo Santander. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Concerns settlement of estate of deceased governor Escandon of Nuevo Santander. Family of deceased to execute will. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Short cover letter regarding Chichimecos in Coahuila; apparently not related to documents which follow. (J. H. Ochs, March 1987)

Order by Revilla Gigedo to reorganize documents in this expediente that refer to Ezpeleta and Calleja. (G. Lavalley, February 1987).

Six decrees for 1756 deal with disturbances in Monclova and consequences. Corregidor or gobernador (?) de Queretaro and presidente de gualdalaja apprehend parties and send them to prison at Monclova. J.m. Johnson (January 1987).

Towns against attacks by indians and theft of livestock; concern for loss of life of children of presidio soldiers, hardships of life in province, complaints of wives, requests for transfers or return to Spain; proceedings continue against rabago, dispositions of other criminals for murders committed at San Xavier; appointments and changes of command, Cancio takes charge at Santa Rosa; illness of gobernador requires cancellation of trip to Mexico. Folio 169 is a letter by Sanchez navarro which details difficulties of travel and communication in his area of jurisdiction. Gobernador Barrios, after visitas, proposes ways of reducing danger and hardships to personnel to reduce growing open complaints of life in province. Two individuals named ravago y theran easily confused in documents. (J. M. Johnson, January 1987)

Sesma reports on visitas to presidios in Coahuila. Finds military preparation and organization in poor condition and maltreatment of Indians. Ff. 75-76 details new procedures to be followed by paymasters habilitados to avoid embezzlements and fraud of military salaries. Ff. 77-78 note abuses and recommends ways to improve distribution of clothing, supplies against Indian attacks, canons, difficulty of populating presidios in Texas with families, changes of command in presidios and governorship of Coahuila, administrative impediments to permission for missionaries in Guadalajara to come to work in Coahuila, desire of certain Indians to transfer their place of residency to missions, junta de guerra and missionaries requested to cooperate with government in putting Indians into reduccion. (J. M. Johnson, January 1987)