The first Mexican provincial council (Mexico City, 1555)

The first church council of the Americas, held at Mexico City in 1555 under archbishop Montufar. Its chapters fix what a parish priest among Indians may and may not do: no charging for the sacraments, no lodging Spaniards at the town's expense, a weekly visit to the jail, a hospital in every town, a rotating market day so that no town loses more than another. The same code forbids the Indians to keep sermons in their own language. Read in the Mexico 1769 edition.