Description
- Abstract:
- Regarding the imposition of excise taxes in the American colonies.
- Notes:
- Title from caption and beginning of text.
- Dated at end: Fecha en el Pardo, â primero de noviembre de mil quinientos setenta, y uno. However, the alcabala or sales tax was not introduced in Mexico until 1575 nor extended to the Viceroyalty of Peru until 1591. See: Recopilación de leyes de los reynos de las Indias (1774), Lib. VIII, Tít. XIII; C.H. Haring, The Spanish empire in America, p. 269; L.N. McAlister, Spain and Portugal in the New World, p. 363.
Citation
"El Rey. A vos los mis virreyes, presidentes, y oydores de las nuestras audiencias, y governadores de las provincias del Perú, y Nueva España, Chile, y Tierra firme, Provincia de Papayan [sic], ê Nuevo Reyno de Granada"
(1591).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731584/
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