Folio contains two large tables detailing the import and export of various kinds of tobacco products and their destinations for the year 1784. The second table contains an endnote from the Contador General confirming the tally and accounting for missing merchandise. Inside the folio is a letter from estanco official Mariano del Solar to the Cont...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1784 - 1786
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains records of the import-export duties paid to the royal customs warehouse in Callao. Fees were paid on manufactures, foodstuffs, currency, postal deliveries, and enslaved persons. The names of the merchants, and sometimes the ship involved, are also included.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1910-03-05 - 1912-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The folio contains records of the media anata, mesadas, novenos and pulperias for 1734. The media anata was a royal tax equal to one-half the first year’s income of an official post, to be paid before possession. The mesada, an earlier tax equal to one month’s income, appears to be levied here on the archbishopric for priests who are taking over...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1734
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains letters from officials of the royal tobacco monopoly and others associated with the production and marketing of tobacco. The letters generally refer to business affairs but also deal with political matters and the challenges of dealing with the royal monopoly. This letter book was created in the second year of the tenure of Minist...
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1777
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Folio contains lists of cargoes, with an official verification of the destination of those cargoes on the facing page. An alphabetized index of the merchants involved is included.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1792
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Alcabala taxes were levied on a wide variety of goods, property and enslaved persons. This folio contains the notarial records of several hundred transactions by a large cross- section of the population. The entries are summarised in the margin. A valuable collection of everyday economic activity in colonial Peru.
Creator:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Created:
1783
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.