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Libro de las Ordenanzas y Medidas de Tierras, y Aguas ... : Mexico City, [1706?].
BANC MSS M-M 1746LOCAL
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Title:

Libro de las Ordenanzas y Medidas de Tierras, y Aguas: Mexico City, [1706?]

Creator/Contributor:

Sáenz de Escobar, José, f. 1700, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Mendoza, Viceroy.

Creator/Contributor:

Peralta, Viceroy.

Abstract:

Compilation containing texts of royal ordinances promulgated in 1536 and 1567 by Viceroys Mendoza and Peralta on distribution and measurement of lands; Sáenz's Geometría Práctica, y mecánica ..., a group of three treatises dealing respectively with interpretation and application of the ordinances on lands, measurement and distribution of water, and mining legislation and measurements; a separate treatise on legal procedure and accounting in regard to property; an appended guide for judicial commissioners; and related material. A statement approving the Geometría issued by Crisóbal Guadalajara in Puebla on September 30, 1706, indicates the date of these three treatises and specifies that they were sent from Mexico City. Includes diagrams, charts, documentary models, colored decorations, and a table of contents.
A typed transcript of the above material is also available. 155 p.

Date:

1706 (issued)

Subject:

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Surveying
Statutes -- Mexico
Statuts -- Mexique
Statutes
Surveying
Mexico
Guadalajara, Cristóbal

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
In Spanish.

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 30 cm
partial microfilm reel (154 exposures) : negative (Rich. 416:16) and positive

Language:

Spanish

Identifier:

BANC MSS M-M 1746LOCAL

Origin:

Mexico