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Accounting records of La Española’s colonial treasury office, 1579-4r

Script style: "Procesal" or judicial. Place: Santo Domingo. Content: Folio 4r of audit of accounting records of La Española’s colonial government’s finances Includes first part of royal order instructing the local colonial authorities to collect the "almojarifazgo" tax on incoming goods. Source: Archivo General de Indias, Contaduría, 1053.

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