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)

Three letters describing legal-economic affairs in Nuevo non-payment of taxes, mismanagement of tobacco trade, appearance of satirical cartoons, installation of religious order, general descriptions of tobacco industry. Governor complains about job. (L. Deatherage, July 1987)

Plans by Gonzalez del Castillo to increase production of Fondo Piadoso haciendas and related fiscal correspondence. Exceptionally detailed accounts of climate, livestock management, irrigation techniques, and labor problems. Includes descriptions of miserable living conditions and personal nature of hacienda laborers and servants, and related problems with low labor output, contraband, servant indebtedness, and degenerating morality. (A. Tukey, July 1988)

(M. Marroquin, July 1988. (folio 597 contains list of commercial items such as cacao, caoba, fabric etc.

Series of documents related to building repair; contraband through San Blas; money shipment through San Blas; re-enlistment of teniente Murga; solicitation of priest to San Blas; request for collected alms; reinstatement of Former tax collector of San Blas; surgeon from San Blas sent to Habana; certification request from Villiano de Aguirre for trip to Nootka; account given for expedition to Cavite with Capellan Villaverde; and Salinas stores restoration. (M. Marroquin, June 1988)

Series of documents concerning alleged desertion and theft committed by condestable of fragata Principe Fernando. List of sailors left ashore due to illnesses. (M. Marroquin, June 1988)