Juzgado General de Naturales (the General Indian Court of New Spain)

A standing court in Mexico City for the lawsuits of indigenous litigants, still being regulated in 1784 by a printed cartel that gave it two salaried advocates, two solicitors, a general interpreter, fixed office hours, and a fee schedule posted in the public part of the building so that the Indians themselves could read it. Tributaries and the poor paid nothing. Its own rules exist because its officers had been overcharging.