Translation No. 006
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Date: 1518, March 2. Valladolid.
Theme: License by the Spanish Crown authorizing colonial treasury official of Santo Domingo Cristóbal Tapia to hire and bring to the colony up to ten technicians of any nationality to build a sugar mill, as well as fifteen male Black slaves and two female Black slaves.
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles—Archivo General de Indias, INDIFERENTE, 419, L.7, F.697V-698R
Theme: License by the Spanish Crown authorizing colonial treasury official of Santo Domingo Cristóbal Tapia to hire and bring to the colony up to ten technicians of any nationality to build a sugar mill, as well as fifteen male Black slaves and two female Black slaves.
Source: PARES, Portal de Archivos Españoles—Archivo General de Indias, INDIFERENTE, 419, L.7, F.697V-698R
[fo. 697v.] The said Cristóbal de/ Tapia/ |
The King/ Since you Cristobal de Tapia, our veedor of the Española / island, reported to me that you have / built a sugar mill in the said Española island / and because you are in need of some / officials and masters that know how to make the said sugar, / and you are not able to find them native of our kingdoms and dominions,/ and according to what has been mandated by us / no foreigner to our kingdoms and dominions / may pass to the set Indies, islands and Tierra Firme / of the ocean sea, you pleaded and begged us / as a favor to grant license and power so that you could / bring [them] from any other nations if not found among our subjects / and natives. And, considering that in building the said mill the said / island receives convenience and profit since other / persons will be encouraged to build similar buildings, / which will be a cause for much ennoblement and peopling / of the said island, I deemed it appropriate, and hereby give / license and power to you the said Cristóbal de Tapia/ and to the person or persons that may have your power, so that / from these kingdoms and from the Canary Islands / you may carry and do carry up to ten sugar making masters / and sugar mill building officials / |
[fo. 698r.] 1 [day?] r/ 1 [day?] r/ | if you find them that are our natives, otherwise / from any other nations even if they are foreigners / so that, because of them, neither you nor the set ten masters / may fall or incur any penalty, despite any prohibition and impediment / that may exist on the contrary, for I exempt all of it / pertaining to this, otherwise the mandate remaining / valid and in place. Also I order our officials / of the Casa de la Contratación de las Indias that reside / in the city of Seville and our / governors and justices of the said Canary Islands / to let and allow the said ten masters to go, / even if, as said before, they were foreigners / with no obstacle or impediment whatsoever / being brought up before them, in spite of them being foreigners, / as it was said, after this cédula of mine is registered by our said officials. / Done at Valladolid on the second day of March of the year Fifteen Eighteen. I the King. Authorized by the Secretary Covos. / Signed by the chancellor and the bishop of Burgos /. The said day a signed and authorized letter by the aforementioned / was sent where your highness grants license to / the said Cristóbal de Tapia so that he may pass / to the said Española island fifteen Black male slaves / and two females slaves with the limitation that has been mandated. / On the said day a letter was issued and signed by the said ones / in which your highness grants license to the said Cristóbal / de Tapia to pass forty silver marcos for the service of his home/ |