734 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 102 



Chapter V 



Continuing the Description of the District of the Diocese of 

 Santiago de Chile. 



1938. The district and jurisdiction of this diocese cover more than 

 I20 leagues E. and W., as has been remarked, from the city of San 

 Luis de Loyola, which is the last in the Province of Cuyo, to Santiago, 

 which is the westernmost. N. and S. it runs from the Copiapo Valley 

 to Captain Salvador's ranch, i6 leagues before the city of La Con- 

 cepcion. Close to that ranch is the Rio and Province of Maule, which 

 is the limit of the Diocese of Santiago ; the Governor appoints a 

 Corregidor. Here it borders on the district of the Diocese of La 

 Concepcion. From the Copiapo Valley to this Rio de Maule and 

 Captain Salvador's ranch, it is 183 leagues. 



1939. The Governor of Chile appoints in the district of the Diocese 

 of Santiago to nine Corregimientos, for their good administration 

 and the dispensing of justice. These are : Santiago ; Quillota ; Meli- 

 pilla near the city ; Aconcagua, near the Cordillera on the road to 

 the Province of Cuyo ; Colchagua ; Maule, which is the boundary 

 with the territory of the city and Diocese of La Concepcion ; Mendoza, 

 of Spaniards and Indians, in the Province of Cuyo; La Serena, of 

 Spaniards ; and the Copiapo Valley, of Indians ; this is the last 

 toward Peru. 



1940. The salary which these Corregidores receive is 25 percent 

 of the 25 percent which the Inspectors (Administradores) take in, 

 except for those of [Acolcagua] Aconcagua and Maule, who have 

 collection agencies in connection with their offices, and the Corregidor 

 of Quillota, who has both a small collection agency (administracion) 

 and 10 percent of the harvest of a grainfield belonging to His Majesty 

 and under his charge. The Corregidor of Melipilla has the collection 

 agencies of Melipilla, Pico, and Pomayre, with 200 8-real pesos, 

 since he has the woolen mill (obrage) under his charge. 



1941. The other Corregidores are on the same basis. Furthermore 

 there are 16 other collection agencies (adminstraciones) ; to make 

 this intelligible, I would explain that in every Indian village, after 

 they have exacted the mine levy (tercio de minas) and personal 

 service and the other contributions, there usually remain in each 

 village 5 or 6 tribute-paying Indians, more or less, and about as 

 many old people. The Governors appoint Administradores (Inspec- 

 tors) in these villages ; these are soldiers who live in the villages and 

 make these Indians work — planting corn, wheat, and barley ; looking 

 after the stock owned by the community ; if the community owns 



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