Minutes, legal documents, memoranda, and assorted documents generated by or pertaining to the government of the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The materials record the deliberations, internal procedures, and decisions of the state congress of Jalisco and acknowledge and respond to official communications to the congress from Jalisco's municipalities and neighboring Mexican states; they also document the concern of state and municipal governments for elections, public security and order, and tax collection. Reels 1-6 contain Libros de Actas (1824-1873) summarizing the transactions of the congress in session and the work of its various commissions. Selections from El País and other periodicals (1962-1872), on reels 6-9, report deliberations of the congress and often portray judicial and political turmoil. They reflect the congress' taxing function; oversight of municipal finances and regional boundaries; provisions for public health, education, and safety; and communications with Mexico's central government. Reel 9 also documents proceedings against Governor Antonio Gómez Cuervo in 1868. On reel 10 are congressional "actas" dating from 1849 to 1852, followed by "documentos sueltos" (1813-1874), which continue through reel 17. The latter form the chief concentration of evidence regarding the interaction of municipalities with the congress, as nearly one-third are legal documents supporting petitions for relief from disaster, famine, taxes, bandits, and landowners. Some of the "documentos sueltos" have been collected under the headings "Hacienda," "Justicia," "Fomento," and "Gobernación," but vary in subject and type; they include official and personal correspondence, circulars, flyers, proclamations, notes and lists, census statistics on merchants and property owners, state and municipal budgets, reports, manifestos, and maps.
