Cedulario de Puga (Mexico, 1563): the law of the Indies printed in the Indies

A book of royal law printed in Mexico City by Pedro Ocharte in 1563, gathering the cedulas and provisiones issued for New Spain from 1525 onward. The viceroy's printing order, dated 3 March 1563, names the compiler — the oidor Vasco de Puga — and the purpose: the good government of the land and the good treatment of its natives. Its folios print the 1530 prohibition of Indian slavery and, on the same leaf, the grant of twenty-three thousand vassals to Cortes.