Ordenanzas de descubrimiento, nueva población y pacificación (1573)

The 148 ordinances Philip II signed at the Bosque de Segovia on 13 July 1573, which struck the word "conquista" out of every future contract with the crown, replaced it with "pacificación" and "población", and set down in advance how an American town was to be sited and laid out. They arrived after Mexico and Peru had already fallen, and the prohibitions in them had to be reissued for a century afterwards — both facts are on the record here.