Del comercio, mantenimientos y frutos de las Indias — the provisioning title of the code

Titulo XVIII of libro IIII is the food-supply law of the Indies: provisions may be carried freely through every province, corregidores may not corner the wheat trade, Castilian weights and measures are imposed, a baker may not also keep a store, and wine is sold in sealed barrels at a capped price. A law of 1601 lets Indian cochineal producers ship to Castile on their own account because dealers bought cheap. The same title doubles every penalty if the seller is black.