CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XXVII. | |
| ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS | |
| 1500-1800. | |
| Peculiar Features of Spanish Colonies — The Supreme Authority — Division of the Indies — Provincial Government — Municipalities — Local Administration — Indian Communities — Office-holding, Restrictions and Requisites — Salable Positions — Vanity and Precedence — New Spain, Extent and Divisions — Offices and Duties of the Viceroy — Pomp, Privileges, and Pay — Vicissitudes and Jurisdiction of the Audiencia — Oidores' Tasks and Honors — Different Instance Courts — Costly Litigation — Causes of Crime — Peculiar and Severe Punishments — At the Scaffold | 517 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
| MINES AND MINING. | |
| 1500-1800. | |
| Traffic with the Natives of Central America — Doings of the Conquerors in that Quarter — Mineral Deposits — Something of South America — Earliest Discoveries in Mexico — Aztec Mining — Protective Policy of the Crown — A Great Discovery — Distribution and Consumption of Quicksilver — Fruitless Efforts to Obtain It in Mexico — Geological View — Silver Ores — Gold and Other Metals — Quarries and Salines — Location of Rich Mines — Attractive Regions — Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas — Their Advantage over the North — Mines near the Capital — The Cuerpo de Minería — A Great Mining Tribunal — New Laws — Mining System — The Total Yield of Mexico — The Share of the Crown — Bibliographical | 553 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. | |
| AGRICULTURE AND MANUFACTURES. | |
| 1521-1803. | |
| Aztec Land System — Spanish Policy and Influence — Cortés as a Farmer — Maize — Maguey and its Manifold Use — Cacao and Vanilla — Introduction of Sugar-cane and Wheat — Fertility of the Southern Provinces — Plantains — Culture of Silk, Vine, and Olives — Tobacco and its Monopoly — Stock-raising — Woollen, Cotton, and Linen Manufactures — Production of Spirituous Liquors — Minor Products — Fisheries and Pearls — Aztecs as Artisans — Feather-work and Jewelry — Oppressive Colonial Policy — Industries at the Close of the Century — Bibliographical | 603 |
