Tambos: the Andean roadside station under the law of the Indies

The Inca road carried lodgings and stores at intervals; the Spanish crown kept them running and then spent half a century legislating about who paid for what in them. Three laws of 1563, 1595-96 and 1609, printed together in the Recopilación, forbid compelling Indians to serve travellers in person, forbid taking food or fodder without paying its just price, and split the traffic across several roads so carriers are less time from home.