Bookkeeping documents and invoices from real hacienda. Documents concerning border war expenses. Request for payments to real hacienda in Sinoloa. Requests for payments of post office administrative expenses. (K. Mccaston, September 1989)

Documents requesting payment of frontier war expenses. List of administrative payments for real hacienda. Payments for post office expenses. Pension request. (K. Mccaston, September 1989)

List of 1790 general's salaries. Letters requesting five salary reviews. Letters to viceroy from Ugarte concerning accounting records for treasury office in provincia del Poniente. (K. Mccaston, September 1989)

Records of military payments to soldiers fighting frontier battles and other related expenses. Letter requesting payments for post office expenses. Inheritance documents. (K. Mccaston, September 1989)

Concerns de la Serna's petition to governor of Nuevo Santander of repayment of expenditures caused in the transportation of military prisoners to Mexico. Contains relation of salaries paid to de Leon and other five soldiers. de Leon and the soldiers testify having received one hundred and ninety pesos by de la Serna as payment for the transportation of Murgier and Puga to Mexico. Revillagigedo orders de la Serna to be repaid the two hundred and Ten pesos he had to expend. Murgier and Puga are ordered to pay one hundred and five pesos each on a monthly Basis.

Series of documents on the preparation for consejo de guerra against Puga and Murgier, accused of killing five Camotero Indians in cold blood. List of military judges and prosecutors given. Sentencing of the two military officials to one year suspension without pay. Legal proceedings lasted from February 6, to February 11, 1794 at the house of Davalos. Notice that Colonel Rengel won't be at court due to illness. (M. Marroquin, April 1989)

Documents mention meeting called to discuss 23 years of Indian depredations in Chihuahua -- specifically, last 4 years of Apache murders, thefts, cruelties. Detailed account of Apache depredations (herd theft and killing, horse and Mule theft, murder of soldiers, attacks on Mule trains, tobacco and clothing theft) included from land and mine owners and merchants. Includes peso estimates of material losses and prose tabulation of dead and wounded. Mentions difficulty of fighting mounted Indians who wield guns and Shields and who have high endurance (notes Indian ability to run night and day sustained by trail food Pinole). Includes lengthy discussion of timing and quantity of military salaries throughout New Spain. (S. Gibbs, September 1989)

Expedientes concern military finances. exp 14 discusses salaries of military officers, compares them with american salaries. Also concerns Bellido's pension -- concern voiced that too high a pension for Bellido could set an expensive precedent. King's order is thus required to obtain a special salary. In exp 15, marques de Croix acknowledges receipt of Apache campaign diaries. Bucareli mentions incident in which tropps with Pima auxiliaries raided Apache camp, killing wounding and capturing Apaches. Bucareli also discusses Galvez' campaign expenses. (S. Gibbs, February 1989)

Croix describes payment of religious staff; cites salary of 10 pesos annually for basic soldier in compania volante. (S. Gibbs, February 1989)

Letters principally from Escorza and Galvez discuss honors, privileges, and salary (1000 pesos) of retired captain Bellido. (S. Gibbs, February 1989)