Incinerations of Estado de Durango notes
Several times quantities of notes were incinerated in formal proceedings at the former Secretaría del Tribunal de Justicia in front of dignitaries from the Dirección General de Rentas and other witnesses. The following incinerations were recorded in the Períodico Oficial. On other dates $5 and $50 Arrieta notes were destroyed, as detailed here.
10c | 50c | $1 | $ | $ | ||||
A | B | A | A | B | ||||
1914 | 4 DecemberPeriódico Oficial,Durango, Tomo XXXIX, Núm. 23, 29 November 1914 | 937 | 70 | 100.70 | 100.70 | |||
17 DecemberPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XXXIX, Núm. 27, 27 December 1914 | 1,011 | 505.50 | 505.50 | |||||
17 DecemberPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XXXIX, Núm. 27, 27 December 1914 | 1,200 | 600.00 | 600.00 | |||||
28 DecemberPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XL, Núm. 3, 17 January 1915 | 1,000 | 500.00 | 500.00 | |||||
30 DecemberPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XL, Núm. 3, 17 January 1915 | 1,000 | 500.00 | 500.00 | |||||
1915 | 11 JanuaryPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XL, Núm. 4, 24 January 1915 | 1,000 | 500.00 | 500.00 | ||||
24 FebruaryPeriódico Oficial, Tomo XL, Núm. 10, 7 March 1915 | 3,183 | 3,448 | 6,631.00 | 6,631.00 | ||||
21 AprilADUR, Fondo Secretaría General de Gobierno, Sección Siglo XIX, Serie Correspondencia, Subserie Revolución, gaveta 6, nombre 88 | ||||||||
22 AprilADUR, Fondo Secretaría General de Gobierno, Sección Siglo XIX, Serie Correspondencia, Subserie Revolución, gaveta 6, nombre 88 | ||||||||
4 MayPeriódico Oficial, 16 May 1915 | 1,000 | 1,000.00 | 2,000.00 | |||||
1,000 | 1,000.00 | |||||||
18 MayPeriódico Oficial, 20 June 1915 | 1,000 | 1,000.00 | 3,000.00 | |||||
1,000 | 1,000.00 | |||||||
1,000 | 1,000.00 | |||||||
22 MayPeriódico Oficial, 27 June 1915 | 1,000 | 1,000.00 | 2,275.00 | |||||
2,550 | 1,275.00 | |||||||
2 JunePeriódico Oficial, 27 June 1915 | 1,500 | 1,500.00 | 3,500.00 | |||||
1,000 | 500.00 | |||||||
1,000 | 1,000.00 | |||||||
1,000 | 500.00 | |||||||
937 | 70 | 9,761 | 7,683 | 7,448 | 20,112.20 | 20,112.20 |
Durango notes were also incinerated in Mexico City. On 8 November 1914 it was reported that half a million pesos in bonos and vales of the Constitutionalists issued in Durango had been burned in the office of the Tesorería de la NaciónThe Mexican Herald, 20th Year, No. 7,002, 8 November 1914 and of $784,000 burned on 11 November $550,000 “represented vales issued by the Constitutionalist authorities during the campaign in Durango”The Mexican Herald, 20th Year, No. 7,007, 13 November 1914.