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CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| CHAPTER XXX. | |
| COMMERCE. | |
| 1500-1800. | |
| The Selfish Policy of Spain — Commercial and Moral Effect in New Spain — Casa de Contratacion and Consulados — Depredations by Hostile Nations and Corsairs — Early Trade with Santo Domingo — Intercolonial Trade with the Philippines — Decadence — Commerce with Peru — Niggardly Regulations — Mexican Highways — The Road from Vera Cruz to the Capital and Acapulco — Stage Lines — Internal Navigation — The Postal Service — Abuses — The Crown Assumes the Management — Internal Trade — Fairs and Markets — Relaxation of Restrictions — Insurance Companies — A Bubble Bank and Gulled Shareholders — Expansion of Commerce under Free Trade | 627 |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | |
| REVENUE AND FINANCE. | |
| 1600-1809. | |
| Treasury Department Established — Royal Officers — The Department as Fully Organized — Regulations and Restrictions — Collection of Revenue — The King’s Fifth — Smelting — Tribute — Quicksilver — Customs Duties — Imports and Exports — The Manila Trade — Royal Monopolies and Sale of Offices — Gambling License — Liquor Traffic — Taxation — Sale of Indulgences — Tithes — Cacao as Currency — Establishment of a Mint — Coinage — Income | 651 |
| CHAPTER XXXII. | |
| THE SECULAR CLERGY. | |
| 1600-1800. | |
| Vicious Ecclesiastics — Struggle between the Regular Orders and the Secular Clergy — Influence of the Religious on the Masses — The Royal Prerogative — Privileges of the Ecclesiastics — Right of Sanctuary — The Bishoprics of New Spain — Religious Fraternities — Church Property — Its Confiscation Ordered — Church Revenues — The Inquisition | 681 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | |
| RELIGIOUS ORDERS. | |
| 1601-1803. | |
| Royal Consideration for Friars — Their Privileges — Abuses — Collision between the Church and the Orders — Causes — Dissensions among the Orders — Gachupin and Creole Friars — Their Unseemly Quarrels — Vice and Immorality — Great Increase in Number of Regulars — Nunneries and Nuns — Missions — Church Secularization — Routine of Duties — Progress of the Franciscans — Efforts in Sierra Gorda — The Augustinians — Division of their Provincia — Internal Dissension — El Triénio Feliz — Disturbance in the Convent at Mexico — Arrival of Barefooted Augustinians — Dominican Labors — Minor Orders — Orders of Charity | 702 |
