Tributos y tasas — the assessed ceiling on Indian tribute

Indian tribute was not what a lord could extract but what an assessment said. Título V of libro VI of the Recopilación sets the rules of the tasa: half rates for two years after resettlement, ten years free for voluntary converts, liability from eighteen, a written separation of the shares of caciques, communities and doctrina, nothing levied above it, and a crown attorney bound to argue for reductions. It also records collection from the dead, and a war surcharge above the tasa.