Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Guatemala (1795-1800)

A private association of a judge, a doctor, a friar and other townsmen that in five years put spinning wheels into Guatemalan hands, opened a free night school of drawing for thirty-two young men, a school of mathematics and a life class, and reported its accounts publicly every six months. The King thanked it in July 1799. In July 1800 a royal order suspended it.