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.
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.
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.
![Libro Manual Diario de esta Administrasion de Alacabala[s] de Arequipa q[ue] corre desde 1º de Enero h[as]ta 31 de Diziembre., 1783.](https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/dce2f023faba966f3ada5174acd28b033ce7c021.png "Libro Manual Diario de esta Administrasion de Alacabala[s] de Arequipa q[ue] corre desde 1º de Enero h[as]ta 31 de Diziembre., 1783.")
