Concerns delivery of food supplies to presidio de Loreto. Assignment of Combon as priest on ship Princesa, and Loera as priest for Acapulco. Letters concerning appointment of navigators. Arteaga asks permission to temporary live in Agualulco in order to better solve health problems. Warning of English ships commanded which are said to be in Costas meridionales, Golfo de Bengala, and Acapulco; a warning message is said to be sent to Monterrey, and California in order to be prepared. Concerns expenditures to make ship repairs. (R. Gomez, may 1989)

Concerns budget for ship repairs and suitable weapons for the ships. Inspection of ships which deliver food to California presidios. Letters concerning increase of salary for troops in departamento de San Blas. Appointment of ship navigators. Letters concerning medicine relations remitted to Acapulco. (R. Gomez, may 1989)

Choquet requests admission to religious Orden de Santiago. Notification not to expend any monies without virrey's approval. Concerns departures of ships from Tepic to Manila transporting food supplies to Loreto. Mention of virrey's death. Petition from Pantoja to become second navigator of ship la princesa. Petition for repairs of ship la favorita and construction new ship. (R. Gomez, may 1989)

Notification of activities related to ships construction. Notification to Hezeta of Bucareli's death and his replacement by Mayorga. Notification of ship departures from puerto de San Blas. Discussion of construction and repair of ships including the cutting of trees around San Blas for the wood needed for ship repairs. (R. Gomez, October 1988)

(D. Uhlman, July 1988)

Concerns shipbuilding in San Blas. Concerns Durango treasury administrator's businesses. Capitan Muniz' wife's receipt of his salary. Concerns deserters and their integration into regimiento de dragones de Espana y Mexico and compania de Voluntarios. Shipment of arms via Veracruz. Naming of Vinolas Mata subteniente to Cataluna company. Merits and new position o Garcia Rebollo. Concerns Jalisco mission orders about dissension concerns retirement of surgeon Davila. Request for funds for recruitment and arms in Querataro. (L. L. Woodward, June 1988)

April correspondence: Ships sent to supply presidios and missions of Loreto, San Diego, San Francisco, and Monterrey; Ruiz received bando re: development of hemp and flax agriculture in area; inquiry about Segurola's salary; naming of Diaz as capellan of fragata La Favorita and salary; more about salaries of various personnel and withholding part of salary to pay debts; leave granted to Choquete to recuperate; purchase of polvora for armament of ships; poor bean crop in Tepic and surrounding areas; construction on fragata Nuestra Senora del Rosario nearly completed, but need more workers. Unrelated monthly correspondence. (D. Uhlman, December 1988)

Correspondence between virrey and Ruiz re: remission of papers from fragata La Favorita listing personnel and salaries; discussion of increase in salary for certain persons; receipt and posting of bandos of regulations pertaining to funerals and internments; current state of construction of fragata Nuesta Senora del Rosario; request to employ Pasqual as carpenter in shipyards and discussion of salary; discussion of media anata charged to deceased Marquez; funding for hospital in San Blas. (D. Uhlman, December 1988)

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)

Series of documents discussing construction of a ship for use by presidio of San Diego to supply military outpost in California. Merits of constructing a new ship versus repairing old one commented on by various officials. Details of ship construction, size, and cost discussed. Reports of earlier repairs and costs. Construction approved by real hacienda officials (9/2/1803). Construction and delivery of ship acknowledged; old one destroyed and parts salvaged (1/1805). Other financial details discussed at later date (1816). Officials involved in discussions include Rodriguez, Saavedra, Arrillaga, virrey, fiscales. (S. Fiederlein, November 1986)