Doroteo Barreiro. Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Vol. III, 1831-1840. Nhanduti Editora

Carlos Pastore

ítulo: A patient and meritorious work was realized by the paleographer José Doroteo Bareiro, beginning with his designation as an official at the Archivo Nacional in the first years of the 20^th century, and being crowned by the voluminous collection of copies of the documents concerning the dictator José Gaspar de Francia, in four volumes, left behind at his death in 1950.
ítulo: The copy of the Bareiro Collection that integrates my documental collection displays a preliminary note signed by the author (by his own hand) that reads:

ítulo: "To the Reader

ítulo: ítulo: The present work comprehends the copies of the numerous documentation preserved in the ARCHIVO NACIONAL DEL PARAGUAY
ítulo: on Dr. Francia, from his origins to his passing away, including his long governmental activity,
ítulo: aimed to facilitate to the scholars of our past a more profound and complete knowledge about his personality,
ítulo: one of the most discussed of our history.
ítulo: ítul: The transcription was realized preserving the chronological order, the style and the orthography of the texts contained in the archives
ítulo: indicated in each piece.

ítulo: ítulo: J. D. Bareyro

ítulo: Approximately one thousand one hundred and seventy-eight (1.178) documents compose this collection, copied in 1.626 sheets of “letter” and “double space” format – each sheet with 28 to 30 lines – numerated in four tomes and filed in five folders.
ítulo: Tome I, with 346 pages of current numeration, contains approximately 281 documents. The first document, the first of the Colección, the copy of an original document signed by Governor José Martínez Fontes and dated June 8^th, 1762, prohibits the exit of the town to a Portuguese, Antonio Francia, owner of a tobacco factory who entered the province at Villa Curuguaty with his family and eight negro slaves, and whose merchandise and the fire arms they carried were confiscated for being illicit acts of commerce. And the last document is a copy of the original signed by J. G. de Francia on December 31^st, 1817 transcribing the decree that condemns the Administrator of the village Itá to six months in prison, payment of so many pesos as the lashes given to the indios punished during his jurisdiction, and the inability to exercise civil, administrative, and military functions.
ítulo: Tome II, of 376 sheets with current numeration, contains 340 documents dated from January 1^st, 1818 to December 29^th, 1828. The first document of this tome is a copy of the Dictator’s original note on January 1^st, 1818 to the Cabildo of Asunción in which he communicates the designation of Pedro Miguel Decoud, Alcalde de Primero Voto of the town, annexing the decree. And the last document is a copy of the note signed by Francia and dated December 28^th, 1828, written to the Delegado of Itapuá.
ítulo: Tome III has 395 sheets with current numeration which contain approximately 233 copies of documents dated from January 5^th, 1829 to December 20^th, 1832. The first document is a copy of the draft of a merchandise bill remitted to Itapuá. And the last is the copy of the Dictator’s original note to the Delegado of Itapuá, about illicit prisons submitted to his consideration and about his duties as a Government’s servant.
ítulo: Tome IV has 512 sheets with current numeration and contains approximately 324 documents dated from January 3^rd, 1833 to December 26^th, 1841. The first document, dated January 3^rd, 1833, is the copy of the original note signed by Francia and written to the Delegado of Itapuá about issues concerning certain civil servants. And the last is the copy of Petrona Regalada Rodríguez de Francia’s original testament."

The Editors

ítulo:Francia III is the third and last volume of the compilation of documents related to Dr. José Gaspar de Francia and the Independence of Paraguay. It contains documents from 1831 to 1840 and is the culmination of an oeuvre started nearly a century ago by the historian Doroteo Bareiro.
ítulo: When Bareiro was the director of the Paraguayan Archivo Nacional, he selected the texts he considered most important for understanding El Supremo and the independence, and prepared with them the so-called Colección Doroteo Bareiro. The publication was decided by a decree in 1940, but never executed, and the conclusion of the task had to wait until the proximity of the independence’s bicentenary.
ítulo: With the publication of the third volume of “Francia”, historians and the public in general have at their disposal a material indispensable for the comprehension of two centuries of Paraguayan independence.

Año 1833: 1879. Sección Civil y Judicial, Volumen 2003, Número 6. Original

Asunción y enero veinticinco de mil ochocientos treinta y tres.
ítulo: Visto este expediente se declara que la esclava Manuela, de que se trata, no pertenece ni puede pertenecer al Estado, teniendo ama cierta y conocida, cual es la donataria Carmen Valenzuela, expresada en el documento a foja 9, en que consta que la obtuvo de su amo anterior Manuel Santos López en remuneración de sus servicios; pero a fin de evitar nuevas disensiones de dicha criada con su ama, deberá ésta darle papel de venta en un moderado precio regular según sus circunstancias de forma que encuentre quien la compre, notificándose esta resolución a la misma criada y extrañándose que el difunto segundo juez ordinario se hubiese injerido a tomar conocimiento y actuar en una demanda en que figuraba acción o derecho de la Tesorería, a más de ser intentada por quien tampoco era parte legítima, que lo es el Defensor de pobres, para promover las acciones o intereses de esta pertenencia, abusando del oficio hasta insistir frívolamente en su determinada pretensión en perjuicio de dicha ama, aún después de resultar comprobado aquel documento por el cotejo y comparación de la letra y su suscripción y de haber confesado la propia criada de ser ciertos los insinuados servicios sin ninguna excepción, cuando lo que debió hacer en vista de la exposición era representarlo al Gobierno para la determinación que conviniese. Se apercibe a dicho Defensor, a que en lo sucesivo no se entrometa en promover acciones del Fisco, que no le corresponden.
ítulo:Francia
ítulo:Policarpo Patiño, actuario del Supremo Gobierno
ítulo
ítulo:(Francia, vol. III, pp. 1324-5)

Año 1840: 2442. Sección Historia, Volumen 244. Número 8. Original

ítulo: Con el mismo portador Miguel Aguayo remito de nuevo auxilio para los pobladores más necesitados de Terecañy: cuatro docenas [de] hachas, seis azuelas, veinte machetes y cien calces de acero. Para el mismo fin va la adjunta libranza de setecientas cabezas de ganado que ha de entregar el capataz Campos, de Gazori, que ya está prevenido de darlas, sean todas de una vez, o en dos ocasiones, según la disposición que llevasen los que fuesen a conducirlas, advirtiendo que no han de entrar en aquella estancia sino detenerse en el paraje Puesto Jhu y de allí passar alguno de ellos a avisar al capataz que con sus peones ha de llevar este ganado, sea en una o en dos partidas, a entregarlas en el mismo Puesto Jhu, evitando de este modo que los caballos de los conductores, que acaso puedan ir plagado de la garrapata, dejen alguna infección dentro de la estancia exenta hasta ahora.
ítulo:Asunción y abril 9 de 1840.
ítulo:Francia
ítulo:Al Comandante de la Villa de Labrador
ítulo
ítulo:(Francia, vol. III, pp. 1650-1)