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By Oscar. Cornblit

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This publication examines the features of political strength within the towns of the colonial Spanish Empire among the 1740s and 1780s, according to an in depth learn of the mining urban of Oruro in Alto Peru (present-day Bolivia), emphasizing the workings of the judicial procedure and the function of the paperwork. towards the tip of this era, the research specializes in the Indian uprisings of the 1780s (the rebellions of Tupac Amaru) and the explanations that resulted in the alliances or confrontations among the actors of the distinctive bands, no matter if white or Indian.

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5862, fol. 4). 54 Moore, op. , pp. 103—4. 55 This happened in Lima in 1580. See Constantino Bayle, Los cabildos seculares en America espanola (Madrid, Sapientia, 1952), p. 171. 26 Power and violence in the colonial city the sentencing to the alcalde ordinario\ but in practice they often judged, passed sentence, and executed the sentence summarily. 56 The alcalde provincial was originally called the alcalde de la hermandad. Subsequently - 1639 in Mexico and 1635 in Peru - he was called alcalde provincial de la hermandad or simply alcalde provincial.

37. See Recopilacidn, op. cit. (Book 5, Title 3, Law 22). See Louis G. Kahle, "The Spanish Colonial Judiciary," Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 32 (1951-^2), cited by J. P. Moore, op. , 1954. According to Moore, in the middle of the seventeenth century Felipe IV had practically abolished the judicial function of the cabildo, establishing that appeals to sentences of alcaldes should proceed directly to the audiencia. Letter from Eugenio Lerdo de Tejada to the viceroy (Oruro, July 25, 1748); AGN, Buenos Aires, 9-7-6-4, Oruro, leg.

The detrimental effects of this kind of partisanship on municipal autonomy seem to have been common in the most distant parts of the Spanish empire, as was the behavior of the officials themselves. Haring comments, citing Manuel Cervera, In 1739 the governor of Buenos Aires recommended the abolition of the alcaldes ordinarios of Santa Fe, Corrientes, and Montevideo, reasoning that they were unnecessary in small cities and since all the persons were related to each other, and the alcaldes were using their staffs of authority simply as instruments of revenge, and they were a cause of disturbances and popular passions.

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