Abogado y Procurador de Pobres of the Audiencias of the Indies

Every Audiencia of the Indies carried on its salary roll a lawyer and a procurator for the poor, listed in the annual return of ministers the viceroys had to send the king. They were ordered to be at the Saturday jail visit with the prisoners' files in hand, on penalty of two pesos. The same code that created the office ruled that its salary was not to come from the royal treasury but from court fines — and in Mexico, in 1783, the Audiencia was still fining them for not turning up.