The Real Cedula de Gracias for Puerto Rico (10 August 1815)

Thirty-three articles that opened Puerto Rico to Catholic settlers of any nation, gave every colonist free land in perpetuity with a written title, and suspended tithes and the alcabala for fifteen years. The same sheet granted half an allotment for every enslaved person brought, gave free Blacks and pardos half a white colonist's share, made the importation of Africans permanently duty-free, and required every colonist to keep arms to hold down his own slaves. Extended to Cuba in 1817.