Concerns Pena's letter explaining how while working for secretaria de comandancia he was imprisoned on orders from Emparan, asking that partial salary be paid to him so he can pay off debts that he acquired and could not pay while in prison, refers back to annual salary disbursed into the cuenta de Paz y guerra as a source of requested money; prison being explained in later letter as detainment suffered when he was sent to Valle de Santa Rosa to deliver files, 4 months without receiving salary, salary eventually suspended; letter from conde de Revilla Gigedo advising that Pena get the amount he requested for the sustenance of himself and his family; Gutierres de la Cueva disburses the funds to Pena; last document in this Series refers to the dates in which the quaderno being abstracted was sent to various officials and why. (O. Velez, October 1989)

Letter telling Nava of right to spend surplus of gratification account on business of peace and war, order to deposit sum into account in Monclova; Cortes hands over documents to Echegaray concerning funds 6.000 pesos dedicated to peace and war in 1789; governor of Coahuila sends documents concerning the account of peace and war for the year 1789 to the intendente of San Luis Potosi; conde de Revilla Gigedo urging payment of accounts relating to the 1789 peace and war account in Coahuila; in order to close account for 1789 real tribunal de la contaduria mayor needs the original expediente number given for the disbursement of these sums, end of quaderno 1 dealing with 6.000 pesos assignment to Coahuila for costs of maintaining peace. (O. Velez, October 1989)

Letter in which the conde de Revilla Gigedo urges expediency in the matter of the 6.000 pesos to be given to Ugalde for Indian pacification; correspondence from the real tribunal de Cuentas concerning the proper method of accounting for the payments of salaries to Cortes and others (as described in detail in ff. 0134-0140) in light of the surplus from the 6.000 peso account for gratificaciones mentioned earlier in this volume; letter ordering ministros de real hacienda in Coahuila to stop crediting the 6.000 sum until documents pertaining to 1789 account are submitted to intendente at San Luis Potosi; letter which mentions that the Indian groups for whom the gratification was for, have openly declared war against Spanish, thus sum in question will be diverted from gratification in Coahuila to compania presidial de Monclova; letter expressing same message to Ugarte y Loyola. (O. Velez, October 1989)

Letter concerns a document prepared by Cortes describing how money was spent on the pacification of Indian groups mentioned, according to accounting there was a surplus of 2.200 pesos in 1788 amount, Salcedo asks opinion of virrey on matter of limiting the amount to be given to 4.000 pesos in light of the surplus; letter mentioning Ugalde's request that surplus in gratification account be allowed to be applied towards the salaries of four military scribes and one dependiente named Pena, that this be allowed annually, Flores requests that the sum needed to meet the salaries be ordered from the sum that is being held by presidio de Bahia as referred to in the last sequence of documents (ff. 0120-0133); Ugalde has interceded on behalf of Ugalde and resolved matter of salaries, money will be sent from the presidio of Bahia, reminder to Ugalde to submit paperwork for the first 4 months as it regards the activities in the account set aside for the pacification of the Indian groups mentioned; Salcedo acknowledging the decision of junta Superior and virrey in this matter with the only qualification being that he be allowed to explore the advisability of letting Ugalde pay the salaries mentioned from the 6.000 pesos that will be sent to him annually for the pacification of the Indian groups mentioned. (O. Velez, October 1989)

A Series of letters addressing the situation of the 6.000 pesos approved by real hacienda to be given to the Asentista of the presidio of Coahuila, problem arises in this regard because Fermo refuses to take charge of the comission given to him by Ugalde; the solution to this problem is that the 6.000 will be handed over to the avilitado of the presidio San Antonio Bucareli de la Bahia who will use it for the same purposes originally intended, the pacification of the Indian groups mentioned; in a later letter it becomes evident that the real hacienda is going to suspend the 6.000 pesos because Ugalde has not submitted the necessary paperwork for the year 1787 as requested by the junta Superior in 1788 on the spending of sums in previous years; next letter in Series sees Ugalde asking that personnel funds that he spent in the employment of Pena during 1788 be reimbursed to him in 1789 budget; letter mentions relacion sent by Ugalde of employment of Dependiente and two cadetes during 1787-1788 and that the Dependiente disputes the salary proposal of 1.000 pesos a year as too little because of the extent of his work in the Provincias Internas, asked for 1.200 pesos a year, document also shows the salaries of the cadetes mentioned; Ugalde states that the sums not spent in 1788 on pacification cannot cover the costs of the Dependiente and the two cadetes; letter from signatories of the junta Superior of the real hacienda telling Ugalde that his salary of 6.000 pesos is enough to cover the costs of the employees mentioned. (O. Velez, October 1989)

Arredondo replaces Juanicotena with Lopez as governor of the Colonia de Nuebo Santander because of Juanicotena's illness; index of letters in this sequence; Calleja approves personnel change; questions put forth on issue of Lopez being entitled to property pertaining to his post since he will be acting as an interim governor only, and similar question pertaining to salary; administrative letter from Lopez to Arredondo dealing with shipment of tobacco received from factory in Veracruz; Cisneros relates to Arredondo incident in which he had travel restrictions placed upon his person in connection wit goods belonging to him that were seized, names Lopez and alcalde of Marina as responsible; Lopez responds in detail to accusation that he treated Cisneros unjustly in matter of the seizure of his goods, noncompliance with directive sent through Aguado, and travel restriction declared by alcalde of Marina; letter from Lopez to Arredondo protesting Guerra's involvement in this matter insofar as he is a military official and he should not have involved himself in a purely civil matter; gobernador can only use a person of sargent rank or lower to be his scribe on military matters and Guerra as military officer receiving salary from the king should not be involved in civil matters - should be sent immediately to Aguayo where he is needed in the secretaria'; Arredondo threatens Lopez if he does not promptly comply with order to send Guerra, mentions possible judicial proceedings against Lopez by Cisneros in matter of seizure of goods and detention; letter from Arredondo giving Juanicotena leave from his duties as governor of Nuebo Santander; Lopez interprets Arredonda's sending him suddenly to Texas as an affront and asks the virrey that he be allowed to go to San Luis Potosi. (O. Velez, September 1989)

Index of letters that are included in this sequence; letter in which Arminan asks that half of the excess of his Coronel's salary be added to his salary as governor of Texas which he has carried out since 1813 and as late as July 1815; letter advising that this information be fowarded to the fiscal, tesoreria, and tribunal de Cuenta; letter explaining that his request will be honored only because he carried out both military duties (Coronel) and political ones of gobernador at the same time, increase will be given less the Media Annata related to his title; Beltran asks that junta Superior communicate steps taken in this matter to Arredondo; San Luis Potosi did not have the funds to comply with order to pay Arminan the increase in salary. (O. Velez, September 1989)

Corbalan informs Croix that he sent troop Inspections and Croix responds that he has received them. Corbalan also lists monthly salaries of military personnel and Croix replies that he knows about the changes of salaries. Corbalan acknowledges merits of two officials to serve virrey. Croix relays to Corbalan requests for sick leaves for several persons. Croix appoints Velena as interim governor; Corbalan congratulates Croix on promotion; Corbalan has received letters from governor of California and commissioner of Loreto regarding need of food supplies there and an account of goods for the Monterey military expedition. (L. L. Woodward, July 1989)