The method of the Querétaro missions: a mission rule the friars wrote themselves, printed with its own indictment

The apostolic college of the Santa Cruz de Querétaro governed its mission pueblos by a method its own missionaries agreed among themselves in 1767 and reported to the viceroy in 1772: bells at sunrise, doctrine in Castilian, the friar as physician and as advocate against the Spaniards who lived in the pueblo, and an annual election of the pueblo's governor by consultation of all. The same reports say the Indians were badly instructed and the individual sowings barely helped them.