The corregidor de indios: a salaried crown magistrate, and the trade that broke him

The district magistrate the Spanish crown put over indigenous pueblos in place of the encomendero: appointed from Madrid, paid a published salary, required to tour his district and forbidden to trade in it. The 1791 impression of the Recopilación prints the salary of every corregimiento by name. Two naval officers reporting in secret from Peru in the 1740s describe the forced sale of goods that turned the same office into what they call the most horrible tyranny that could be invented.