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Establishing Schools in South America, Taxing the Indians

[Ferdinand VII of Spain]; [Charles III of Spain]; [Gárate Cañizares, Tadeo Joaquín]

Por quanto cumpliendo mi Real Audiencia de Charcas con lo que se la previno por Real cédula de veinte y ocho de Enero de mil setecientos setenta y ocho sobre establecimiento de escuelas del idioma castellano en los Pueblos de Indios. [El Rey. En cinco de Noviembre de mil setecientos ochenta y dos se expidió la Real cédula del tenor siguiente.]

Spain: 1815. First edition. Unbound as published. [4] p. Dated on the top of the first page, and numbered at the lower left corner in ink, by a contemporary hand. Printed on Santiago Serra’s paper: watermark of an ornamented Maltese cross and the word “Capellades”. In fine condition.

Royal order concerning the establishment and finance of schools in Indian communities in South America for the teaching of the Castilian language. This 1815 Royal order is a reinforcement and partly a reprint of a previous ordinance concerning the establishment of schools for teaching the Spanish language in the pueblos de Indios (January 28, 1778), and a supplement (November 5, 1782) which — as a response to the appeal of the Corregidor de la Provincia de Paria) — permits to finance these schools and provide the salary of the teachers by newly imposed taxes on the local indigenous communities.

Apparently not all the desirable schools were established by 1815, and in a response to another appeal, this time by Tadeo Joaquín Gárate Cañizares’ (1774–1827), a former Deputy of the Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias in Puno (viceroyalty of Peru), Charles III’s earlier order and the encouragement of the taxation were repeated and reinforced by Ferdinand VII.

Scarce, WorldCat locates only 2 copies worldwide (UC Berkeley Libraries; Harvard University).

Price: €2,500.00