Translation No. 002
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Date: Possibly 1501[1]
Theme: Recommended tax rate on cane sugar as part of an early tariff possibly devised in the Spanish royal court for the new colony of La Española
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles--Archivo General de Indias,INDIFERENTE,418,L.1-113- Imagen Núm: 112 /378 – Imagen Núm: 115/378.
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Tariff of tithes and primicias / Tariff of tithes and primicias / Tariff by which the King and the Queen our lords mandate that the tithes and primicias be paid and collected in the Española island and in the other islands and mainland of the Ocean Sea, in which the things on which a tithe and primicias must be paid are declared, and how they are to be collected / |
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[…] a tithe must be paid on the cane sugar, one out of ten canes, and he who were to collect it [the tithe] must require those who are in charge of the mills to mill for him the canes he may have collected as tithe, and be them obliged to mill them for him at once, and if there were a dispute between he who owned the mill and those who collect the tithe so that they give for milling more canes than they collected as tithe, be it the judgment of the tithe collector, the tithe collector is to be the judge / the canes must be milled with nothing being charged for them / […]
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[1] The copy of the document includes no date. We know the proposed tax schedule was prepared by Gaspar Gricio and that this copy appears in the archival bound volume between other documents dated in 1501.