Bayles, taquies and the pulque law: indigenous festivity under colonial regulation

Two laws printed side by side in the Recopilación regulate indigenous festivity: public dances need the governor's licence and may not fall in harvest time, and pulque may hold nothing but the simple native juice of the maguey — an adulteration standard written after the drink was being cut with roots, boiling water and lime. The same law caps the capital's taverns at thirty-six and names the tax farmer of the duty on the drink it condemns.