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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">El Rey. A vos los mis virreyes, presidentes, y oydores de las nuestras audiencias, y governadores de las provincias del Per&#xFA;, y Nueva Espa&#xF1;a, Chile, y Tierra firme, Provincia de Papayan [sic], &#xEA; Nuevo Reyno de Granada ..</dc:title><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    Spain.
  </dc:creator><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
    Spain.
    Sovereign (1556-1598 : Philip II)
  </dc:creator><dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">text</dc:type><dc:publisher xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">[Madrid? : s.n.,</dc:publisher><dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">1591?]</dc:date><dc:language xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">spa</dc:language><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Regarding the imposition of excise taxes in the American colonies.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Title from caption and beginning of text.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dated at end: Fecha en el Pardo, &#xE2; 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: Recopilaci&#xF3;n de leyes de los reynos de las Indias (1774), Lib. VIII, T&#xED;t. XIII; C.H. Haring, The Spanish  empire in America, p. 269; L.N. McAlister, Spain and Portugal in the New World, p. 363.</dc:description><dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. annotation at end of text: Concuerda, con el testimonio de real cedula, que queda, en el oficio de mi cargo &#xE1; que me remito, y para, que conste, en virtud de lo mandado, por auto de este dia, pongo la presente, en Mexico &#xE1; catorce de junio de mil setecientos sesenta, y cinco. Fran[cis]co Xavier Sanchez Es[criba]no ... Therefore, it is possible that this is a later Mexican reprint of the original royal decree of 1591.</dc:description><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Finance, Public</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sales tax</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alcabala.</dc:subject><dc:subject xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Imprint 1591?</dc:subject><dc:coverage xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Spain Madrid.</dc:coverage></oai_dc:dc>