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  Spanish document on the duties on imports and exports

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  This manuscript is a collection of documents and transcriptions of receipts of proceeds from taxes and duties on imports and exports, collected by the Spanish government, in New Spain (Mexico), from 1560 to 1570. Someone named "de Cardenas," who is the "fiscal de Su majestad" (loosely translated as lawyer for the crown) is mentioned on the cover. The cover is loose. The manuscript has paper repairs and insect damage with some loss of text.

  mssHM 83977

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  Mexican and Spanish land grants, Sonora, Mexico

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  Documents confirming property rights and holdings in the state of Sonora by Mexican or Spanish royal officials. Most documents concern the Gutierrez family, of San Miguel de Horcasitas and owners of the Rancho San Marcial in Sonora, which may suggest that they collected the documents as a legal record of their property ownership. The documents bear royal or state stamps that establish their bona fide nature. Some documents clearly state that they are copies taken from the originals. The documents are in Spanish.

  mssHM 83121 (a-p)

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  Manley Ebenezer Rice papers, (bulk 1863-1865)

  Manuscripts

  The largest part of the collection is 57 letters that Manley E. Rice wrote to his wife Elizabeth Jane Day Rice from Camp Randall, (Madison, Wis.), New Orleans (April and May 1864), Brownsville and Fort Brown, Tex. (May-- July 1864), Fort Morgan, Ala. (1864, Augus--October), and Fort Gaines, Ala.(1864, Nov. -- 1865, June). The letters posted at Camp Randall describe the training and drills, (or rather the lack of thereof), veterans of the Vicksburg campaign returning from the battlefield, and former slaves working at the camp. Rice also registered his unhappiness with the state legislators who had failed to appropriate more funds for medical help and his astonishment upon hearing a woman temperance orator, a Mrs. Hobert, "addressing five or six hundred men." The letters then follow Rice's journey from Wisconsin to Texas and Alabama, providing detailed accounts of camp life, his concerns for his family struggling to survive back home, eager anticipations of the "end of this Fratricidal Strife," description of the occupied country, war news, (including the evacuation of Fort Brown, John Salmon Ford's operations at Fort Brownsville in the summer of 1864 and other operations in southern Texas, Farragut's capture of the ironclad ram Tennessee, the Franklin Nashville Campaign, the battle for Mobile, Ala., and the peace negotiations), the Fourth July and the first anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg celebration at Brownsville, and the hospital at Fort Gaines, including former slaves employed there. Rice vividly describes the shock of the news of Lincoln's assassination that found him in New Orleans, noting that there were "several shot for rejoicing over the death of the President" and the shooting was "mostly done by Colored Troops." (He also cited very tangible threats made against Confederate prisoners held at Fort Gaines.) Rice recounts a chase that the federal ships gave to a Confederate ram, the William. H. Webb that was trying to escape to Havana. (Rice who was accompanying hospital patients to New Orleans, was onboard of one of the ships, the Hollyhock).

  mssHM 69708-69803