The jornal of the Indian day-labourer: wages in coin, into his own hand

A wage clause in the personal-service laws of the Recopilación de leyes de las Indias that is rarely quoted: the day-wage of Indians is what they themselves will take, no tariff imposed, and paid "en propia mano cada dia, ó semana, á voluntad de los Indios". A second law voids payment in wine, chicha, honey or yerba. The same títulos print the crown's contrary reasoning for the drafts, and a law clearing Indians out of the obrajes by telling owners to use enslaved Africans.