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Incinerations

In the Archivo General de la Nación there are 17 volumes from the bank dealing with incinerations, so with time and application it might be possible to reconstruct most of the details. In the meantime, this is a partial attempt.

  Acta $1 $2 $5 $10 $20 $50 $100 $500 $1,000 total
number
total
value
$
5 December 1910informe in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1910 677     32,000 2,000   700 300 30 40 35,070 300,000
1 September 1911authorised by R. Ramírez de Aguilar, Jefe de Hacienda, acting as interim Interventor (informe in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1911) 731                 10 10 10,000
21 December 1911 $9,000 burnt in the Tlaxiaco branch (informe in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1911) 764     1,800             1,800 9,000
                    91,000
28 December 1911informe in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1911 766     14,000           1 14,001 71,000
                         
4 February 1918                        
[  ] April 1918notes of $1, $2 and $5, incinerated by the Banco de Londres y México (El Pueblo, Año III, Núm. 1267, 30 April 1918)                       2,000,000
18 June 1918                        
26 July 1918       86,415             86,415 432,075
    57,833               57,833 115,666
7 August 1918   216,961 4,206               221,167 225,373
9 August 1918       300,000 250,000       1,000 4,000 555,000 8,500,000
      75,000             75,000 375,000
      70,000 90,000 45,000 18,000 19,000     242,000 4,950,000
6 September 1918                        
27 September 1918of $1 and $2 notes, witnessed by the jefe de Hacienda in Puebla, Quirino Domínguez; the interventor, Mauro Cárdenas Rodríguez, and some employees of the bank ((El Pueblo, 28 September 1918)                       150,000
9 October 1922                       2,369,000
6 November 1922                     14,916  1,491,600
22 November 1922             9,164 1,787 443 84 11,478  942,400
5 December 1922             8,087 1,55      9,842  579,850
23 December 1922           9,925 3,871        13,796  392,050
12 January 1923           7,216     164 153  7,533  379,320
9 February 1923         9,218     1,502 126 210  11,056  515,380
7 March 1923         9,380   1,974   285 140  11,779  475,000
7 April 1923           4,864 2,168 2,386     9,418 444,280
9 May 1923           3,662 999 604 16 24 5,305 215,590
22 June 1923         15,882           15,882 158,820
12 September 1923         29,040           29,040 290,400
19 September 1923         6,433           6,433 64,330
12 November 1923          17,774           17,774 177,740
21 November 1923         10,094           10,094 100,940
27 February 1924       12,771 4,034 2,086 1,181 927 51 23 21,073 346,165
2 May 1924       29,669             29,669 148,345
18 September 1924       74,033             74,033 370,165
19 November 1924       36,327             36,327 181,635
10 June 1925                     1,359 194,230
      74,855 9,528              
14 August 1925                        
21 August 1925                        
28 August 1925                        
4 September 1925                        
11 September 1925                        
18 September 1925                        
25 September 1925                        
2 October 1925                        
9 October 1925                        
17 October 1925                        
13 November 1925                        
4 December 1925                        
8 January 1926                        
15 January 1926                        
23 April 1926                        
28 June 1926                        
20 August 1926                        
11 October 1926                        
16 December 1926                        
29 January 1927                        
31 March 1927                        
19 July 1927                        
13 September 1927                        
2 February 1928                        
27 July 1928                        
8 September 1928                        
9 October 1928                        
21 January 1929                        
23 February 1929                        
2 April 1929                        
22 May 1929                        
24 July 1929                        
19 December 1929                        
24 March 1930                        
25 April 1930                        
30 August 1930                        

 

By 1917, in accordance with the Secretaría de Hacienda’s reglamento of 9 March 1916 the Comisión Monetaria was in charge of incinerations. In a report to Congress on 1 September 1917 Carranza said that $111,820 in notes of the Banco Oriental had been incineratedEl Pueblo, 4 September 1917: Periódico Oficial, Tamaulipas, Tomo XLII, Núm. 75, 19 September 1917. Up to 3 December 1917 the Comisión had incinerated around four million pesos of Banco Oriental notes, which had been deposied in the Descuento Español’s strongroomsEl Pueblo, 3 December 1917.