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1512-12-27

Laws of Burgos exempt Salvatierra de la Çabana from mine labor

Haitian

There was another law that carried with it clear injustice and tyrannical iniquity, which was almost the end of all the others, and to which all the others were ordered, that is, that by force and under a certain penalty it was commanded of those who held Indians in repartimiento that of all of them they should send the third part, or, if they wished, bring more than the third part, to take out gold, but we permit, says the law, that the residents of la Çavana (which was a hundred leagues and more from the mines), and those of the Villa Nueva de Yaquimo (which was 80), be not obliged to bring Indians to the mines, because they are very far from them, but we command that they make hamacas, etc. …

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 434 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. III) (1875), p. t. III, p. 434