Legends of the City of Mexico/Aduana de Santo Domingo (Notes)

by Thomas Allibone Janvier

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NOTE III

LEGEND OF THE ADUANA DE STO. DOMINGO

Carved over an arch half-way up the main stairway of the ex-Aduana—the building no longer is used as a custom-house—still may be read Don Juan's acrostic inscription that sets forth the initials of Doña Sara de García Somera y Acuña, the lady for whom he so furiously toiled:

Siendo prior del Consulado el coronel Dⁿ Juan Gutierrez Rubin
de Celis, caballero del Orden de Sⁿtiago, y consules Dⁿ
Garza de Alvarado del mismo Orden, y Dⁿ Lucas
Serafin Chacon, se acabó la fabrica de esta
Aduana en 28 de Junio de 1731.