The law of the Council of the Indies (Recopilación, libro II, títulos I to III)

The council that governed Spanish America is written down here from its own rulebook: the hours it sat and the rule that no session ended until every petition had been answered, the standing order to keep a complete description of the Indies and update it yearly, the charge to put conversion and good treatment before royal profit, the ban on its judges holding encomiendas, and the recusal of relatives.