The ordinances of 1525 for the villas of Honduras: a municipal constitution for towns not yet built

Written for two towns just founded in Honduras and declared to bind every town settled afterwards, these ordinances fix what a Spanish municipality in the Indies was to be: two alcaldes, four regidores, a procurador and a notary, renewed each new year; an inspector of weights, measures and food prices; marked refuse grounds; a bar on buying to resell; a third of every fine to the town hospital's poor. They fix the limit too — no council may meet without the governor's lieutenant present.