The Second Audiencia of New Spain (1531-1535) and its junta on the treatment of the Indians

The court sent from Spain to try the first Audiencia of Mexico and to govern until a viceroy came. Under its president, the bishop Sebastián Ramírez de Fuenleal, twenty-five people were sentenced in 1532, the royal orders imposing death for enslaving Indians were published, and a junta cut personal service, banned carrying loads, ordered wages paid and had Indian towns elect their own alcaldes. The friar who calls the president a father to the Indians also records the towns objecting to him.