CHAPTER I

.--Colonial system--Early grants of power to rulers

in Mexico by the Emperor Charles V.--Abuse of it--Council of the Indies--Laws--Royal audiences--Cabildos--Fueros--Relative positions of Spaniards and Creoles--Scheme of Spanish colonial trade--Restrictions on trade--Alcabala--Taxes--Papal Bulls--Bulls de Cruzada--de Defuntos--of Composition--Power of the Church--its property--Inquisition--The acts of the Inquisition-- Repartimientos--Indians--Agriculturists--Miners--Mita--Excuses for maladministration, 127

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