FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Academy wishes to express its appreciation to Layton D. Register, Esq., of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and to Mr. Enrique Gil, of the National University of La Plata, of the Argentine Republic, for the translation of this article.
[2] Old Spanish legislation for the Spanish-American colonies.
[3] Encomienda is the Spanish name for the concession, granted by the crown during the Spanish Colonial period, of a certain number of native Indians, to a Spanish conqueror for purposes of service. The Encomendero was the recipient of such a concession from the crown.
[4] Mita. Spanish term for the distribution by lot of the native Indians for purposes of public work.
[5] Yanaconazgo. Spanish term for that peculiar kind of land tenantship by which the tenant has no title to the land, but receives a proportion of the product of his labors upon the land.
[6] The cowboy of the Argentine Pampas.