The division of Mexico City into quarteles and the alcaldes de barrio (1782)

In December 1782 Mexico City was cut into 8 major and 32 minor quarters, each minor one given an unpaid resident magistrate who had to keep a street book, take a house-by-house register of every inhabitant "sin reserva de sexo ni edad", procure a physician, midwife and apothecary for his quarter and a school for its boys and girls, and keep the paving, sweeping and lighting up. The same ordinance ordered Indians out of the centre.