Report, with supplementary documents, on Presidios of the Provincias Internas : Mexico, 1722-1729.

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Rivera, Pedro de, 1664?-1744. Report, with supplementary documents, on Presidios of the Provincias Internas : Mexico, 1722-1729.

Report, with supplementary documents, on Presidios of the Provincias Internas : Mexico, 1722-1729.

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Incomplete transcript of 1728 report prepared by Rivera, Governor of Tlaxcala and subsequently Governor of Guatemala, on the basis of his 1724-1728 inspection of the northern frontier presidios. It is divided into three main parts, in compliance with Viceroy Casafuerte's request for an account of presidio conditions as Rivera found them, conditions upon his departure, and measures advisable for their improvement. Stresses salaries and prices, foreshadows the noted 1729 "Reglamento para todos los Presidios de las Provincias Internas ..." Followed by copies of related documents (1722-1729), including a royal decree, viceregal statements, a letter from Juan de Oliván Rebolledo, Military Auditor General, and approval of the report by Palacios, the Fiscal. For complete printed text, see Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, Archivo Histórico Militar Mexicano, Núm. 2, Diario y Derrotero ..., Mexico, 1946, p. 97 et seq.

Originals : 228 p. ; 30 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (118 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:20) and positive.

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