[22] Zamora y Coronado, Biblioteca, I, 452; I, 483–486; Martínez Alcubilla, Diccionario, VIII, under “Justicia”. See also Danvila y Collado, Reinado de Carlos III, VI, 157–158.
[23] By the royal decree of May 23, 1879, the audiencias at Havana and Manila were each given a civil and criminal sala and a fiscal was provided for each sala as in the audiencias of Mexico and Lima. When it was necessary, oidores could be transferred from one sala to the other.—Colección legislativa de España, CXXII, 1093–1100.
[24] Recopilación, 2–15–1.
[25] See Professor Shepherd’s brief description of the governmental machinery of Spain’s colonies, in his Guide to the materials for the history of the United States in Spanish archives, 10–12; note also the articles recently published by Desdevises du Dezert in the Revue historique (CXXV, 225–264; CXXVI, 14–60, 225–270) under the title of “Vice-rois et capitaines généraux des Indes espagnoles a la fin du XVIII siècle.”
[26] Recopilación, 2–15–17.
[27] Ibid., 2–15–2. Although the Recopilación and Danvila y Collado (cited in note 19) give the date of the establishment of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo as 1526, the royal decree issued at Pamplona, October 22, 1523, is addressed to nros oydores de la audiencia real de la Ysla Española (A. I., 139–1–6, tom. 9, fol. 225). There are various references antedating 1526 in this and the following legajo.
[28] Ibid., 2–15–3. For the exact limits of this audiencia see Puga, Provisiones, cédulas, ff. 12–13; 47–48, and Hackett, “Delimitation of political jurisdictions in Spanish North America to 1535,” in Hispanic American Historical Review, I, 60, note 102.
[29] Ibid., 2–15–13, 14, 15.
[30] Ibid., 5–1–2, 3; 2–15–4, 12.
[31] Ibid., 5–1–16.