Obras públicas de las Indias

How roads, bridges, drains and fountains were paid for in Spanish America. A título of the Recopilación orders works apportioned among those who receive the benefit; a companion law caps the Indians' share of a bridge at a sixth of its cost; a city excise on wine funded the drainage of Mexico City. The same opening shows a levy on every enslaved African entering Lima paying the police, and corregidores ordered to make Indians work.