Real Ordenanza de Intendentes de Nueva España (Madrid, 1786)

The administrative rewrite of New Spain: twelve intendancies, the old corregimientos and alcaldías mayores extinguished, an irremissible penalty on any official who forced goods or cattle on Indians, Spaniards, mestizos or any other caste, and the annual election of Indian pueblo officers kept where the custom existed. The same code paid the new district judges not a salary but a percentage of the tribute they collected — the reform and the hole in it printed in one volume.