[28] Ibid., 5–10–4.
[29] Ibid., 5–13–1.
[30] Ibid., 2–15–97.
[31] Ibid., 88.
[32] Ibid., 103, 107, 108. Magistrates were forbidden to sign decisions during office hours—valuable time which should be devoted to hearing cases (ibid., 109).
[33] Ibid., 105.
[34] Ibid., 117. Pesquisidores were special investigators with extraordinary executive and judicial powers who were sent out by the home or central government when need arose to correct abuses in colonial or provincial administration. Visitadores (visitors) were sent regularly to inspect the government of a province or colony. The governor was supposed to dispatch visitors to examine the work of alcaldes mayores and corregidores every three years.
[35] Ibid., 118.
[36] Ibid., 178.
[37] Recopilación, 5–15–21. Acuerdo, the joint consultative action of the governor and audiencia. See Chapter VI of this book and note 78 of the same chapter.