Index to Microfilm MF 513, Part I & II: Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives -- CJMA
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University of Texas at El Paso DigitalCommons@UTEP Guides to Microfilm Collections Special Collections Department 1-14-2000 Index to Microfilm MF 513, part I & II: Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives -- CJMA Samuel E. Sisneros Victor M. Macías González Norma Snider Saidah Ochoa Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/guides Part of the Public Administration Commons Comments: Dates: 1699-1982 Bulk dates: 1734-1944 116 Rolls Recommended Citation Sisneros, Samuel E.; Macías González, Victor M.; Snider, Norma; and Ochoa, Saidah, "Index to Microfilm MF 513, part I & II: Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives -- CJMA" (2000). Guides to Microfilm Collections. 1. https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/guides/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections Department at DigitalCommons@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Guides to Microfilm Collections by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UTEP. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INDEX TO MICROFILM MF 513, part I & II Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives – CJMA (Archivo Municipal de Ciudad Juárez) Dates 1699 –1982 Bulk dates 1734 –1944 116 Rolls Prepared by Samuel E. Sisneros and Víctor M. Macías González Data entry Norma Snider and Saidah Ochoa January 14, 2000 C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department University of Texas at El Paso 1 P R E F A C E The original documents of the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives (Archivo Municipal de Ciudad Juárez or AMCJ) are housed in the Biblioteca Regional Arturo Tolentino in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. The archives date from 1726 to 1970, and include documents that reflect the many functions of the Ciudad Juárez municipal government, such as the minutes of the town and city councils, personnel and financial records, registers of land, correspondence on judicial matters, and criminal reports. The records also contain a variety of materials such as censuses, mining claims, brand registers, accounts of military activities, and requests from federal and state authorities for reports on various matters, and other documents of historical value. The Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives have been microfilmed and are available for viewing at the University of Texas at El Paso. Two separate filming of the Juárez Municipal Archives exist: Archivos del Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Juárez (MF 495) and Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives (MF 513 pt. I & II). The latter is a second filming and is considered more complete and of a better quality. I N T R O D U C T I O N Claudia Rivers, Head of the Special Collections Department, at the University of Texas at El Paso library supervised this editorial/indexing project. Víctor Macías, Ph.D, then a graduate student at UTEP, initiated the project and inventoried over half of the microfilm collection. As a graduate student in History at UTEP and staff at the Special Collections Department, Samuel Sisneros completed the project, which totaled 114 rolls 2 of microfilm. Relating to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives microfilm collection is the Juan Uribes Manuscript Collection (MS 352). The Juan Uribe Collection is a group of documents that were most likely separated from the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives (Archivo Municipal de Ciudad Juárez). It is possible that these documents got into private hands during land registry litigation and stayed in the private possession of families of those people involved in the land issues. The Juan Uribe Collection contains a total of 806 pages of documents that are primarily inventories of estates, and land registry, interspersed with various civil and criminal judicial proceedings. See Guide to the Uribe Collection along with the original documents at the Special Collections Department, UTEP. It is the purpose of this volume to present a comprehensive guide that will facilitate better access to the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives. Other inventories that compliment this work are: Chávez Chávez, Jorge El Archivo Municipal de Ciudad Juárez (Unidad de Estudios Regionales, Universidad Autóma de Ciudad Juárez, Cuaderno de trabajo, 10, 1992). -----Catalogo de las Actas de sesiones del Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Juárez, 1890- 1891 (Unidad de Estudios Regionales, Universidad Autóma de Ciudad Juárez, Cuaderno de trabajo, 12, 1993). -----Catalogo de las Actas de sesiones del Ayuntamiento de Ciudad Juárez, 1892- 1893 (Unidad de Estudios Regionales, Universidad Autóma de Ciudad Juárez, Cuaderno de trabajo, 16, 1993). Sisneros, Samuel E. An Annotated List of Documents on the Towns of Guadalupe and San Ignacio in the Ciudad Juárez Municipal Archives 1849-1859. (Graduate Seminar project, UTEP, 1999) For furthur information on using historical documents: Barnes,Thomas Northern New Spain, A Research Guide , (University of Arizona Press, Tucson Arizona, 1981) 3 Haggard, J. Villasana Handbook for Translators of Spanish Historical Documents (University of Texas, Austin, Texas 1941) Polzer, Charles William The Documentary Relations of the Southwest, Project Manual (Arizona State Museum , Tucson, 1977) TABLES TITLES OF HIGHEST-RANKING OFFICIAL IN CIUDAD JUAREZ REGION, c. 1700- 1930 Alcalde Mayor de la Jurisdicción del Paso (Bourbon period) Alcalde Primero Electo (Constitution of 1824) Gefe Superior Político Prefecto (1835-1850 governments of generalísimo López de Santa Anna) Gefe Político y de las Armas Jefe Político (República Restaurada) Jefe Civil (República Restaurada into Porfiriato) Jefe Político y de las Armas (Porfiriato) Jefe Político y Militar (Porfiriato) Comandante de la Plaza (during periods of military rule in Mexican Revolution) Jefe Político (Revolutionary regime) Presidente Municipal (PRI government) TOPONYMY The name of the metropolitan area of modern-day Ciudad Juárez had gone through countless variations during its 336 years of existence.Today, the city is the seat of the Municipality of Ciudad Juárez. Given the settlement's geostrategic importance, the jurisdiction of the highest-ranking resident official varied over time, according to the changing political environment of New Spain/Mexico. For simplification and better understanding of the English- speaking researcher, the jurisdiction of Paso del Norte/Ciudad Juárez can best be understood as corresponding to that of a county. Thus, Paso del Norte/Ciudad Juárez has functioned as the county seat for a region with a radius of 100 to 50 miles. For approximately the past 140 years, , the settlement has served as the cabecera (seat) of Distrito de Bravos or Cantón Bravos. Other equivalents of the term distrito during the first 50 years of Mexican Independence include partido, cantón (1847-?) and prefectura. The term partido may be problematic, it is applicable both to a "county" and to smaller precincts within a "county." Thus, while authorities divided the State of Chihuahua into 11 partidos (counties) in February of 1826, documents from the mid-nineteenth century use the same term to refer to the significantly smaller precincts within partido/canton/ prefectura/distrito of El Paso/Bravos. Previously, under Spanish rule, the town served as cabecera over the jurisdicción del Paso del Rio del Norte. Another 4 term that often surfaces between the period1800-1860, especially in legal testimony, is the term país, whichtranslates into English as "country." In modern Spanish, this concept is expressed by the term comarca, and is used to refer to "region" or"province." Thus, the region is often referred to as "País del Passo." Another difficulty relates to the larger political entity of which Paso del Norte was a part. Under Spain, official correspondence and decrees were received from both the royal governors of the Reynos (Kingdoms) of la Nueva Mexico and la Nueva Vizcaya, by way of the provincia de Chihuahua. The jurisdiction of both Kingdoms over the region was unclear, and further complicated by the creation of the Comandancia de las Provincias Internas de Occidente, with the official residence of the Comandante changing from Durango to Arizpe, Sonora to San Felipe el Real del Chihuahua. The researcher interested in ecclesiastical questions will find that, while the area fell under the jurisdiction of the Bishopric of Durango, the Franciscans in the region had a distinct hierarchy to follow. In more modern periods, an overlapping of Mexican and American bishoprics also confuses the question further. The following works may provide more specific information: Almada, Francisco R. Geografía del Estado de Chihuahua. Chihuahua, Chih.: -----. Diccionario de historia, geografía, y biografía sonorenses. Chihuahua, Chih.: n.p., 1952. -----. Resumen de historia del Estado de Chihuahua. México: Libros mexicanos, 1955. -----. Diccionario de historia, geografía, y biografías chihuahuenses, 2nd. ed. Ciudad Juárez, Chih.: Impresora de Juarez, 1968. Chávez M., Armando B. Sesenta años de gobierno municipal en Ciudad Juárez: Jefes políticos del distrito Bravos y presidentes del municipio de Juárez, 1897-1960: Actuación política y datos biográficos. México: Gráfica Cervantina,1959. -----. Historia de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. N.p., 1970. Rouaix, Pastor. Diccionario geográfico, histórico, y biográfico del Estado de Durango. México: Instituto Panamericano de Geografma e historia, 1946. Timmons, Wilbert H. El Paso: A Borderlands History. El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1990. LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES FOR CIUDAD JUAREZ Mission de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Rio del Norte (1659) Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Real Presidio del Paso del Rio