The third Mexican provincial council (Mexico, 1585) and its printed decrees

The church legislation that governed New Spain for two and a half centuries. Held at Mexico in 1585, confirmed at Rome in 1589, printed in 1622 and again in 1770, it ordered a school in every Indian town, catechism in the Indians' own language, and the protection of Indians by bishops and governors alike - and it records, in its own decrees, the abuses that made each order necessary.