Overview:
In a decree from late 1770, Gálvez, the Visitador issued a series of orders about the sales tax obligations and privileges of an ecclesiastical institution in their purchases and sales of certain items and properties. He references the economic implications of property expansion and the important religious obligation of caring for the poor. Legal precedent was important as a legitimizing force for his decree, as evident in his references to the Recopilación de leyes. This document records those orders and cites their approval by the viceroy.
Major Players:
Jose de Gálvez, Royal Inspector to New Spain 1765-1771
Carlos Francisco de Croix, Viceroy of the Spanish kingdom of New Spain 1766-1771
Antonio Rodriguez de Pedroso y Soria,
Conde de San Bartolomé de Xala,
Lieutenant Captain in the Order of Santiago
Don Juan Antonio Varela, Subdelgado
Don Domingo Rabago and Doña Maria Josefa Peinado,
previous owners of religious properties
Juan José Martínez de Soria, escribano de gobierno
Important Places:
Hospital of San Antonio Abad, first founded 1530, but only meaningfully established after 1628
Convent of Our Lady of the Incarnation