The arancel of the gracias al sacar (royal cedula of 10 February 1795)

A royal cedula of 1795 approved a printed price list for the favours the Camara de Indias could grant. It charged 500 reales to dispense a man from the legal quality of pardo and 800 from that of quinteron — against 1,000 for the style of Don, 8,000 for the right to hang chains at your door, and 80,000 for a patent of nobility. Read from the tariff itself, printed in 1797, where the price of ceasing to be pardo sits in the same column as the price of enclosing a field.