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APPENDIX A
Translation and Transcription . The following photostatic
copies of manuscripts have iDeen sSlected as typical
documents of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries in regard to su'bject matter. The
first sixteenth century document presented is an interrogatory
according to which any witnesses presented "by Viceroy
Don Antonio de Mendoza were to "be questioned in the course
of the visita held in 1543. The second sixteenth centurydocument
is a commission issued by Fray Alonso de Montufar
to Alonso Fernandez de Segura, appointing him inspector
general of Mexico and adjoining ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
This commission was issued at Mexico City on
April 2, 1569. These photostatic copies were made from the
originals fdled in The Latin-Americar Collections of The
University of Texas.
From the same depository, two sample documents were
taken for the seventeenth century. One of these is a
royal order hy which the king instructs Francisco Ramirez
Briceno, governor and captain-general of the province of
Yucatan, or whoever might be in command, to provide supplies
for the Jesuit establishment in M^rida. The other document
is a religious oath talcen by a friar, on June 11, 1653.
Copies of two documents for the eighteenth century were
taken from the Spanish Archives of Texas, of The University
of Texas. One is a letter written on October 2, 1760, by
Phelipe de Mbago to the ayuntamiento of San Antonio in
which he offers his services as the new commander at San
Saba. The other document is a petition drawn up by several
members of the royal presidio of San Agustin, in which they
request their annual allotment of gunpowder; it is dated
January 2, 1762.
Only one document was selected for the nineteenth century.
This docToment is a letter signed by Stephen F.
Austin at San Felipe de Austin on August 28, 1826. In
this letter Austin states that he has taken depositions of
certain witnesses concerning Peter Ellis Bean. The letter
was also taken from the Spanish Archives of Texps.
These photostatic copies have been presented here as
samples of the application of the principles and rules set
down in the foregoing pages. After the doc\ament was carefully
read, a transcription was made, and is presented
immediately following the document. A translation of the
transcription is then e:iven.
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