Ordenanzas para el Archivo General de Indias (Madrid, 1790)

Ninety-four chapters that turned a building full of transferred paper into an institution: salaried archivist and officials, a class called Historia for the relations, antiquities and customs that fitted no administrative heading, master copies of the oldest documents on large paper, and a library of geography and law beside the archivist's desk. The same code shuts the door - no one outside the named offices could be given a copy, or even told that a paper existed.