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  "name": "Real Colegio de San Telmo de Málaga (nautical college founded by the Ordenanzas of 1787)",
  "summary": "The daughter school of Seville's San Telmo, founded at the request of the Málaga consulado and given its own code eighteen months later. A hundred and fifty boys, orphans of Málaga and Granada preferred, taught mathematics, the nautical faculties, commerce and four modern languages, funded on American silver and on the surplus of the city's own aqueduct, and bound on admission to serve in the Royal Navy or the Indies trade.",
  "locale": "en",
  "tags": [
    "spain",
    "americas",
    "navigation",
    "education",
    "poor-relief",
    "institutions",
    "eighteenth-century",
    "trade",
    "enlightenment"
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      "target": "real-colegio-de-san-telmo-de-sevilla"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "aqueducto-de-san-telmo-de-malaga"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "reglamento-de-comercio-libre-1778"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
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      "rel": "related",
      "target": "spanish-navigation-manuals-in-england"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "malaspina-expedition"
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  "questions": [
    "What was the Real Colegio de San Telmo de Málaga?",
    "Did Spain build more than one nautical college for poor boys?",
    "Who asked for the Málaga nautical college, and who paid for it?",
    "What languages were taught at an eighteenth-century Spanish nautical school?"
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  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "The founding code is printed as ORDENANZAS PARA EL REAL COLEGIO DE SAN TELMO DE MÁLAGA, Madrid, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, año MDCCLXXXVII, and closes \"Dada en el Pardo á diez y nueve de Marzo de mil setecientos ochenta y siete.= YO EL REY.= Josef de Galvez\", addressed like its Seville counterpart to the Consejo y Cámara de las Indias and to the President and Oidores of the Real Audiencia de Contratación.",
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      "confidence": 0.95
    },
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      "id": "c2",
      "text": "The two codes were issued as one programme, and the printing says so before the text does: the Málaga title page of 1787 and the Seville title page of 1786 carry the same engraved vignette from the same plate, signed \"M. Maella inv.\" and \"H. Fabregat inc.\", showing a figure holding a chart between two ships with octant, anchor and cable before the Pillars lettered PLVS VLTRA.",
      "sources": [
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        "ordenanzas-san-telmo-sevilla-1786"
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      "confidence": 0.85
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    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "The preamble reproduces Seville's opening paragraph on the growth of the Indies trade under the reglamento of 12 October 1778 and then states the chain of intent: the king had improved and enlarged the Seville college and given \"en su nueva constitucion la norma para otros Colegios que me propuse erigir en algunos puertos habilitados\", among which Málaga was notable \"tanto por su situacion, quanto por su floreciente comercio\". Seville's 1786 code was written to be copied, and this is the copy.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "The foundation was asked for locally, not imposed. The king states that \"teniendo copia de hábiles Pilotos y otros Oficiales de mar para la direccion y acierto en sus navegaciones … he venido en fundar en dicha Ciudad, á instancia de su Consulado, un Colegio con la denominacion de San Telmo\", and grants its community the same privileges, exemptions and preeminences already held by the Seville house.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "text": "Its endowment names four sources, and the first is American: \"una dotacion suficiente y perpetua en el fondo del uno por ciento de la plata que viene de Indias, en el producto de un buen número de acciones impuestas á favor suyo en la Real Compañía de Filipinas y en el Banco Nacional, y en el sobrante de los caudales que produgere el Aqüeducto de Málaga, con los Molinos, Lavaderos, y demas obras dependientes de él\".",
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      "confidence": 0.9
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      "id": "c6",
      "text": "Article 1 fixes a hundred and fifty colegiales - a hundred de número and fifty porcionistas - with the same officers as Seville, four professors of mathematics and the nautical faculties and one of Commerce, a master of first letters with assistant and a drawing master; but where Seville had two language masters, French and English, Málaga has four, \"de las lenguas Francesa, Inglesa, Italiana y Alemana\". The table of titles also gives it a Guardia at article 114 and a Médico y Cirujano at article 115.",
      "sources": [
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        "ordenanzas-san-telmo-sevilla-1786"
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      "confidence": 0.85
    },
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      "id": "c7",
      "text": "Article 2 repeats Seville's entrance rule word for word - \"naturales de mis dominios de España é Indias, hijos de familia sin nota particular, notoriamente pobres, de edad desde los ocho hasta los catorce años, sanos y robustos\" - changing only the local preference, which here runs to boys of the bishopric of Málaga and the archbishopric of Granada orphaned of both parents, failing them those orphaned of the father, then the sons of pilots and other sea people.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
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      "text": "The obligation is identical to Seville's and is stated in the same words: article 6 caps residence at ten years and no more, and provides that on admission the colegiales gain a right to education, food and the house's subsidies \"y contrahen obligacion de servir en la Marina Real y del Comercio á Indias\". Article 4 has the Director send the list of vacancies to the king through the Secretario del Despacho universal de Indias, the king choosing who fills them.",
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      "confidence": 0.9
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      "text": "The limits of this evidence are the same as for Seville, with one addition. The 1787 text is a founding charter, not a report: it shows what was ordered in March 1787 and nothing about enrolment, teaching or survival afterwards. Its funding clause is also a promise resting on a public work not yet complete - the Málaga aqueduct surplus it counts on had been running for less than three years when the code was signed.",
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      "confidence": 0.75
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  "winning_edge": "The Málaga college is almost invisible in English, and where it appears it is as a building. This object reads its charter against Seville's and shows what the comparison yields: the same engraved plate on both title pages, the same entrance article admitting boys born in the Indies, the same ten-year cap and the same clause conscripting graduates into the Navy or the Indies trade - and the differences, four modern languages instead of two, a resident physician and surgeon, a foundation requested by the local merchant guild, and an endowment that leans on a city aqueduct as well as on American silver.",
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