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  "name": "Which treasury pays: the twelve laws that made Cartagena pay Santa Marta, Panamá pay Santo Domingo and Mexico pay Manila's carpenters, and shared the shortfall pro rata without exception",
  "summary": "The last twelve laws of libro VIII, título XXVI of the Recopilación say which royal chest pays a salary when the local one cannot. Cartagena covers Santa Marta, Panamá covers Santo Domingo's judges and infantry, Mexico covers Manila down to the day-wages of carpenters and smiths — and where the money falls short it is divided \"prorata sin excepcion\". Folios 583-587.",
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    "americas",
    "sixteenth-century",
    "seventeenth-century"
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    {
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  "questions": [
    "Which royal treasury paid a colonial official's salary when the local one was empty?",
    "Did Spanish America's treasuries subsidise each other?",
    "How were the Spanish Philippines paid for?",
    "Why were colonial salaries paid in silver and not in gold?",
    "Who paid the salaries of the inquisitors of Cartagena de Indias?"
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  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "The salary título of the code of the Spanish Indies changes subject halfway through, and the second half is about which chest pays. In the fourth impression, printed at Madrid in 1791 by the widow of Joaquín Ibarra for the Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies, leyes xj to xxij of libro VIII, título XXVI run from the right-hand column of folio 583 to folio 586, and a set of unnumbered italic remissive notes closes the título two lines into folio 587, immediately above the heading TÍTULO VEINTE Y SIETE, DE LAS SITUACIONES. This entry reads those twelve laws and the remissive notes; leyes j to x, on when a salary is earned, are read separately. The running head of folio 587 already reads \"De las Situaciones.\" although título XXVI closes on that leaf; the law numbering was read at band magnification and checked in sequence.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "text": "Two laws make one province's treasury answer for another's officials when the money is not there. Ley xj (Philip II, San Lorenzo, 22 July 1595) orders the royal officers of the province of Cartagena, on a certificate from those of Santa Marta that there is no royal money in Santa Marta or the Río de la Hacha out of which to pay the governor of that province the salary assigned him, to pay it \"de qualquier hacienda nuestra\". Ley xij (Philip III, San Lorenzo, 4 July 1602) does the same one rung down: if there is no royal money in Santa Marta, and the royal officers certify it, those of the Río de la Hacha are to pay the Santa Marta officers their salaries out of whatever royal money is in their charge. The certificate of the empty chest is the operative document in both.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "The thirteenth law moves a whole island's government onto another mainland's treasury and says why. Ley xiij (Philip III, Lerma, 23 June 1608; Philip IV, 24 October 1642) recites that the royal revenues of the island of Hispaniola \"no se alcanzan á pagar los gastos precisos para Salarios, y Sueldos de Ministros, y Militares\", that the shortfall had anciently been made good by the royal officers of the City of Mexico on the island's annual certification, and that the consignación is now to pass to the Real Caxa of Panamá, out of which are to be paid each year the salaries of the president, oidores, fiscales and royal officers, the pay of the infantry \"y otros gastos de aquella Isla, y Ciudad de Santo Domingo, como ahora se practica\". The government of Hispaniola and of the city of Santo Domingo is here a standing charge on the isthmus, written into the código as such.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "The law that carries the Philippines is worth reading for who is named in it. Ley xv (Philip II, Madrid, 17 January 1593; 13 January 1596; San Lorenzo, 17 August 1598) charges the royal officers of the Philippine Islands to pay out of any royal money in their charge the salaries of the oidores and fiscal of the Audiencia of Manila, the pay of the soldiers and sailors, \"y las Soldadas á Carpinteros, Herreros, y otros qualesquier Oficiales que trabajaren por jornales\". A judge's salary, a soldier's pay and a smith's day-wage are made the same charge on the same chest, in that order, in one sentence of a fiscal code.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "text": "The same law then says what happens when there is not enough for everyone, and the answer is not a queue by rank. Ley xv continues: \"y si no fuere bastante para cumplir lo que montaren con todos, repartan entre ellos lo que alcanzare, prorata sin excepcion\" — the shortfall is shared proportionally among all of them, the words \"sin excepcion\" leaving the oidores of Manila in the same pro rata as the carpenters and smiths. The officers are then to ask the remainder of the royal officers of New Spain resident in Mexico City, who are ordered to remit it, and the law adds that the law itself \"ó su traslado, signado de Escribano\" is sufficient warrant for the payment \"sin otro recaudo alguno\", with the viceroys of New Spain ordered to see it provided punctually.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c6",
      "text": "A fourth transfer law goes the other way and restricts rather than subsidises. Ley xiiij (Philip IV, Madrid, 22 August 1629) gives the two persons whom the governor and captain general of Trinidad and Santo Tomé de la Guayana names as royal treasury officers \"cincuenta mil maravedís de Salario á cada uno, por via de ayuda de costa\", and orders the governor to pay that salary and ayuda de costa out of the particular efectos and members of revenue entering that chest \"y no de otro género de hacienda nuestra\". On the Guayana frontier the officers' pay is tied to what the frontier itself yields.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c7",
      "text": "One law decides in which metal an American salary is paid, and it decides for the treasury. Ley xvj, with a margin running from Madrid, 12 October 1561 through 1563, 1568, 1575 and 1586 to Madrid, 22 December 1645 and Zaragoza, 17 October of the same year, orders that what is to be sent to Spain from quintos, derechos and other proceeds be remitted in kind — \"si fuere Oro, se remita en Oro, y si Plata, en Plata\" — and that the royal officers pay salaries and quitaciones to viceroys, presidents, oidores, alcaldes, fiscales, governors, all other persons and themselves \"en la Plata, que tuvieren en las Caxas de su cargo de diferentes llaves, y no en Oro\", the gold always to be sent to Spain as it came in \"sin trocarlo, ni convertirlo en otro género, moneda, ó pasta\", on pain that the difference and excess be charged to the officer's own account. The salaried man is paid in the metal the crown wants least, and the officer who exchanges one for the other pays the spread himself.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c8",
      "text": "One law makes the last year of a district governor's salary a hostage for his accounts. Ley xvij (Philip III, Valladolid, 25 January 1605) orders that corregidores and alcaldes mayores not be paid the salary of the last year they have served \"hasta haber dado cuenta de las penas de Cámara, y todo lo demas que hubiere sido á su cargo, y entera satisfaccion á nuestra Real Caxa de lo que resultare\". The district officer could not collect his final year's pay until he had accounted and made good; what the law secures, in its own terms, is the satisfaction of the royal chest, and it names no other party to whom anything is owed.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c9",
      "text": "The ration law is a payroll statute for day-labour, and it is the most detailed procedure in the twelve laws read here. Ley xviij (the same, Valladolid 1605) requires that rations given to those in royal service be \"por lista firmada de todos nuestros Oficiales en presencia del Escribano de la hacienda Real, que ha de asistir precisamente\", that the notary attest the distribution and the entries be passed in data to the factor or treasurer \"y no de otra forma\", and that the notary keep a book in which what is given is entered \"con declaracion de las personas, cantidades, géneros, y ocupacion\", the entry made \"todos los Sábados del año\", signed by the factor or treasurer and by the notary, the book rubricated as the others are, \"y así se guarde en todas nuestras Indias, donde se hicieren pagas por Raciones, ó Jornales\". A named, dated, countersigned weekly register of everyone fed or paid by the day in the royal service, ordered for the whole of Spanish America.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c10",
      "text": "Two laws show what the salary system was funded on where ordinary revenue failed, and both are uncomfortable. Ley xviiij (Philip IV, San Lorenzo, 27 October 1626) gives the salaries of the officers of the royal audiencias that are consigned on penas de Cámara and gastos de Justicia preference over any other expense charged on the same fund: the fines imposed by a court are applied first to paying its own officers. Ley xx (Philip III, Valladolid, 8 March 1610) orders the royal officers of Cartagena to pay from their chest, and failing it from what comes down from the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, \"ocho mil y quatrocientos ducados en cada un año, que montan tres cuentos y ciento y cincuenta mil maravedís\" to the Receptor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office founded in that city, for the salaries of two inquisitors, a fiscal and their ministers — and it states the term expressly: \"entre tanto que haya penas, y penitencias\". The royal treasury carries the Cartagena Inquisition until the tribunal's own penalties can carry it.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c11",
      "text": "The título's two closing laws are reporting and discipline. Ley xxj (Philip IV, Ágreda, 19 April 1646) orders viceroys, presidents, audiencias and governors to send the Council of the Indies every year \"relacion muy ajustada\", addressed to its secretaries, of all the salaries and emoluments enjoyed each year by the ministers and officers serving in their districts, the títulos or appointments they hold, and \"el género de hacienda en que están consignados\" — an annual, itemised payroll return from the whole of the Indies to Madrid. Ley xxij (the same, Madrid, 18 July 1649) forbids the royal officers to pay from the chests in their charge any salary or other thing consigned on other efectos \"sin especial órden nuestra\", requires payment out of the kind of revenue on which it is assigned, and forbids resort to subsidiary consignaciones until legitimate recourse has been had to the first, on pain of being charged with what they pay.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c12",
      "text": "The unnumbered remissive notes that close the título carry two provisions that matter more than their typography suggests. One reads \"Que en los Lugares de Señorío se paguen los salarios de los tributos, y no de bienes de Comunidad, ley 32. tít. 2. lib. 5.\" — on its face a rule keeping officials' salaries off the community funds of Indian towns. Another reads \"Que en el distrito de la Nueva Galicia no se pague el salario á los Corregidores, y Alcaldes mayores de tributos, ley 31. tít. 2. lib. 5.\" Both are bare cross-references: they name a protection, they state no standard, and the laws they point to in libro V were not opened here, so nothing in this entry establishes what either of them actually provides. The remaining notes give interim appointees half salary, stop a dead servant's salary at the day of death, deny salary from the day of the merced as against the day of the oath, and bar a judge of the Casa de la Contratación from salary for time absent without licence.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
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      "id": "c13",
      "text": "The last thing printed in the título is not a law but a resolution of the Council of the Indies, and it is an anti-self-dealing rule aimed at the inspection machinery itself. The acuerdo of 27 April 1676 orders that from then on in all commissions despatched by the secretariats and escribanías de Cámara for visitas, residencias \"y otras qualesquier averiguaciones\", the judges to whom they are committed \"no han de llevar salarios del tiempo, que se ocuparen en las mismas Ciudades donde residieren\", and must afterwards apply to the Council for such ayuda de costa as their occupation deserves; notice of the acuerdo is to be given \"á la Sala de la Recopilacion, para que se ponga por ley\". A judge commissioned to investigate in his own city of residence is to draw nothing for it, and the compilers printed the Council's instruction to turn its own resolution into law.",
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    {
      "id": "c14",
      "text": "Read together, the twelve laws describe one treasury with many chests rather than many treasuries, and the transfers run towards the places that could not pay. Mexico and then Panamá carry Santo Domingo; Cartagena carries Santa Marta and the Río de la Hacha carries Cartagena's shortfall in turn; Mexico carries Manila; and the Guayana frontier is thrown back on its own receipts. Nothing in the twelve laws gives the inhabitants of a subsidising province any say in the transfer, and nothing states a principle of solidarity: the stated ground in every case is that a royal obligation must be met. The claim that these provisions amount to a fiscal system rather than a series of expedients is this corpus's reading of laws that rank and justify nothing, and it is offered as a reading.",
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    {
      "id": "c15",
      "text": "What this entry establishes is the text of twelve printed laws and a set of remissive notes in the 1791 fourth impression, read from five leaves, and not what was done under them. No certificate of an empty chest, no remittance from Mexico to Manila or from Panamá to Santo Domingo, no libro de raciones, no annual relación of salaries sent to the Council, no payment to the Receptor of the Cartagena tribunal and no charge against an officer for paying in gold appears anywhere in this corpus, so nothing here shows any of these rules operating. The laws of libro V título II to which the remissive notes point, and the cross-references to libro VIII título X ley 20, libro II título XXV ley 24, libro IX título I ley 100 and libro IX título II ley 23, were not opened. Nothing here was collated against the 1681 first impression, which this corpus also holds.",
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  "winning_edge": "That the Mexican treasury subsidised the Philippines is a known fact of imperial economic history, usually cited through the situado literature and almost never through the law that ordered it. This entry prints that law and the eleven around it from the leaf, and what comes out is sharper than the summary version. Ley xv does not merely fund Manila: it names, in one sentence and in this order, the oidores and fiscal of the audiencia, the soldiers and sailors, and the day-wages of the carpenters and smiths, and when the money will not reach it orders the shortfall divided \"prorata sin excepcion\", which puts the judge and the smith in the same proportion. The chain of substitute payers is printed too — Cartagena for Santa Marta, the Río de la Hacha for Cartagena's shortfall, Panamá for the president, oidores and infantry of Santo Domingo — each triggered by a certificate that the local chest is empty. Beside them the entry prints what the same título does for the treasury and against the salaried man: salaries paid in silver because the crown wanted the gold, with the exchange charged to the officer personally; a district governor's last year of pay withheld until his accounts are cleared; court fines applied first to the salaries of the court's own officers; and eight thousand four hundred ducados a year of royal money carrying the inquisitors of Cartagena \"entre tanto que haya penas, y penitencias\". It closes with the Council's own 1676 resolution that a judge commissioned for a visita or residencia in the city where he already lives shall draw no salary for it.",
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    "description": "The last twelve laws of libro VIII, título XXVI of the Recopilación say which royal chest pays a salary when the local one cannot. Cartagena covers Santa Marta, Panamá covers Santo Domingo's judges and infantry, Mexico covers Manila down to the day-wages of carpenters and smiths — and where the money falls short it is divided \"prorata sin excepcion\". Folios 583-587.",
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        "name": "Recopilación de leyes de los reynos de las Indias, libro VIII título XXVI 'DE LOS SALARIOS, AYUDAS DE COSTA, entretenimientos, y quitaciones' — leyes xj to xxij and the remissive notes that close the título, running from the right-hand column of the printed folio 583 to the second line of folio 587: ley xj 'Que no habiendo en Santa Marta para pagar el salario del Gobernador, se le pague en Cartagena' (margin 'D. Felipe II en S. Lorenzo á 22 de Julio de 1595'), ordering the officers of Cartagena, on certification of those of Santa Marta that there is no royal money in Santa Marta or the Río de la Hacha, to pay that governor's salary 'de qualquier hacienda nuestra'; ley xij 'Que no habiendo de que pagar sus Salarios á los Oficiales de Santa Marta, se los paguen los del Rio de la Hacha' (margin 'D. Felipe III en S. Lorenzo á 4 de Julio de 1602'); ley xiij 'Que lo que faltare para Salarios, y Sueldos de la Isla Española se pague en la Caxa de Panamá' (margin 'El mismo en Lerma á 23 de Junio de 1608. D. Felipe IIII á 24 de Octubre de 1642'), which recites that the royal revenues of the island do not reach 'los gastos precisos para Salarios, y Sueldos de Ministros, y Militares', that the shortfall had anciently been made good by the officers of the City of Mexico on annual certification, and that the consignación passes to the Real Caxa of Panamá, out of which are to be paid the salaries of the president, oidores, fiscales and royal officers, the pay of the infantry 'y otros gastos de aquella Isla, y Ciudad de Santo Domingo, como ahora se practica'; ley xiiij 'Que á los Oficiales de la Isla Trinidad se les paguen los Salarios de efectos, y no de otra hacienda Real' (margin 'D. Felipe IIII en Madrid á 22 de Agosto de 1629'), which gives the two persons named by the governor of Trinidad and Santo Tomé de la Guayana as treasury officers 'cincuenta mil maravedís de Salario á cada uno, por via de ayuda de costa', payable out of those same efectos 'y no de otro género de hacienda nuestra'; ley xv 'Que se pague en la Caxa de México lo que faltare de Salarios, y Soldadas en Filipinas' (margin 'D. Felipe II en Madrid á 17 de Enero de 1593. Y á 13 de Enero de 1596. En S. Lorenzo á 17 de Agosto de 1598'), which charges the officers of the Philippines to pay out of any royal money in their charge the salaries of the oidores and fiscal of the Audiencia of Manila, the pay of soldiers and sailors, 'y las Soldadas á Carpinteros, Herreros, y otros qualesquier Oficiales que trabajaren por jornales', and, if it is not enough for all, 'repartan entre ellos lo que alcanzare, prorata sin excepcion', asking the shortfall of the officers of New Spain at Mexico City, who are ordered to remit it, the law or a notarised copy of it standing as sufficient warrant 'sin otro recaudo alguno'; ley xvj 'Que los Oficiales Reales no paguen Salarios ni Libranzas en Oro, y le remitan en especie, y guarden la ley 20. tít. 10. de este libro' (margin running from 'D. Felipe II en Madrid á 12 de Octubre de 1561' through 1563, 1568, 1575 and 1586 to 'D. Felipe IIII en Madrid á 22 de Diciembre de 1645. En Zaragoza á 17 de Octubre de él'), which orders that quintos, derechos and other proceeds be remitted in the species in which they came in, 'si fuere Oro, se remita en Oro, y si Plata, en Plata', that officers pay salaries and quitaciones to viceroys, presidents, oidores, alcaldes, fiscales, governors and all others, their own included, in silver 'y no en Oro', and that the gold always be sent to Spain 'sin trocarlo, ni convertirlo en otro género, moneda, ó pasta', the difference to be charged to the officer personally; ley xvij 'Que no se pague á los Corregidores, y Alcaldes mayores el Salario del último año, hasta haber dado cuenta, y satisfaccion de lo que fuere á su cargo' (margin 'D. Felipe III en Valladolid á 25 de Enero de 1605'), which withholds the last year's salary until account has been given 'de las penas de Cámara, y todo lo demas que hubiere sido á su cargo, y entera satisfaccion á nuestra Real Caxa de lo que resultare'; ley xviij 'Que da forma en pagar las Raciones' (margin 'El mismo allí'), requiring that rations given to those in royal service be 'por lista firmada de todos nuestros Oficiales en presencia del Escribano de la hacienda Real, que ha de asistir precisamente', passed in data to the factor or treasurer 'y no de otra forma', the notary keeping a book in which they are entered 'con declaracion de las personas, cantidades, géneros, y ocupacion', the entry made every Saturday of the year and signed by the factor or treasurer and the notary, the book rubricated, 'y así se guarde en todas nuestras Indias, donde se hicieren pagas por Raciones, ó Jornales'; ley xviiij 'Que los Salarios de Oficiales en penas de Cámara se prefieran á otros qualesquier gastos' (margin 'D. Felipe IIII en S. Lorenzo á 27 de Octubre de 1626'); ley xx 'Salarios de los Inquisidores, y Oficiales de la Inquisicion de Cartagena' (margin 'D. Felipe III en Valladolid á 8 de Marzo de 1610'), ordering the royal officers of Cartagena to pay from their Caxa, and failing it from what comes down from the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, to the Receptor of the Tribunal of the Holy Office founded in that city 'ocho mil y quatrocientos ducados en cada un año, que montan tres cuentos y ciento y cincuenta mil maravedís', for the salaries of two inquisitors, a fiscal and their ministers, 'entre tanto que haya penas, y penitencias, segun está ordenado por las leyes de este libro'; ley xxj 'Que los Vireyes, Presidentes, y Gobernadores envien cada año relacion de los Salarios, que se pagan' (margin 'D. Felipe IIII en Agreda á 19 de Abril de 1646'), requiring an annual 'relacion muy ajustada' to the Council of the Indies of all salaries and emoluments enjoyed by ministers and officers, the títulos or appointments they hold and 'el género de hacienda en que están consignados'; ley xxij 'Que los Salarios se paguen de sus consignaciones y no de otras' (margin 'El mismo en Madrid á 18 de Julio de 1649'), forbidding payment of any salary consigned on other efectos 'sin especial órden nuestra' and payment out of subsidiary consignaciones until legitimate recourse has been had to the first; and the remissive notes that close the título, among them 'Que á los nombrados en oficios en ínterin no se dé mas que la mitad del salario, ley 51. tít. 2. lib. 3', 'Que en el distrito de la Nueva Galicia no se pague el salario á los Corregidores, y Alcaldes mayores de tributos, ley 31. tít. 2. lib. 5', 'Que en los Lugares de Señorío se paguen los salarios de los tributos, y no de bienes de Comunidad, ley 32. tít. 2. lib. 5', 'Que el salario de los que murieren sirviendo, se pague hasta el dia de la muerte, y no mas, ley 52. allí', 'Que á ninguno se dé salario desde el dia de la merced', and the acuerdo of the Council of 27 April 1676 ordering that in all commissions for visitas, residencias and other averiguaciones the judges 'no han de llevar salarios del tiempo, que se ocuparen en las mismas Ciudades donde residieren', applying afterwards to the Council for an ayuda de costa, 'y dése noticia de este acuerdo á la Sala de la Recopilacion, para que se ponga por ley'",
        "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=Lt41mzCz8zEC&pg=PA583"
      }
    ],
    "@type": "Article",
    "headline": "Which treasury pays: the twelve laws that made Cartagena pay Santa Marta, Panamá pay Santo Domingo and Mexico pay Manila's carpenters, and shared the shortfall pro rata without exception"
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}