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REGULATIONS OF THE TOWN. 



the correjidor and commander of the town ; all the other officers among 

 the Indians are under his orders. 



Mariano Cayuba, another respected Indian, seventy-three years of age. 

 holds the office of " casique," which is second in command. Cayuba 

 receives all reports — how many sick, and all deaths ; the condition of 

 the town, as to cleanliness and good order; how many canoes in 

 port ; their arrivals and departures ; and the state of the cattle on the 

 plains. "When Cayuba goes to prayers in the evening with his wife and 

 children, he stops at Fratos's house and tells him all ; makes a regular 

 report of everything that is going on, be it good news or bad. Fratos 

 is held responsible for the good order of things by the prefect, to whom 

 he also pajs a daily visit, for the purpose of posting him up in regular 

 order by word of mouth. 



Cayuba receives his reports from the following officers : one " inten- 

 dente," who oversees portions of the public business, with one " alferes 

 four " aguacils," (constables ;) eighteen " comisarios," who carry orders, 

 keep watch at night, and are employed on duty about the prefectura- — 

 one of them is head waiter at the table ; two " policia " officers, whose 

 duty it is to see the boys of the town supply»water for drinking during 

 the day. The boys are marched out of town early in the morning with 

 earthen jars on their heads — in the wet season to the stream, and in the 

 dry to the lake. Boys don't like such work, but they grow fast, when this 

 labor fells to others. Four " fiscal es" superintend the streets and houses ; 

 see that they are kept clean and in order. A fiscale, in olden time, was 

 a ministerial officer — an attorney general. Sixteen " capitanos," who 

 command gangs of one hundred Indians each — these are working men. 

 Whenever the government of Bolivia requires a house to be built, a bridge 

 made, or a sugar plantation and sugar-cane gathered and manufactured, 

 an order is given to that effect to Fratos, who calls for one or sixteen cap- 

 tains' companies, as the case may be, and they muster their men into 

 immediate service, for which they receive no pay, as it is for their coun- 

 try they are laboring. 



A "teniente de estancia," or mayor-domo de estancias, overlooks the 

 cattle in the prairie ; keeps accounts, as near as he can, of their number ; 

 what their condition is ; whether the floods and the tigers destroy them ; 

 what is the state of the pasture-lands. When he finds the grass dead, 

 he fires it, and a young pasture springs up, as the rain begins to fall, 

 and fattens the cattle. He instincts the Indians how to build enclosures 

 for the calves, which keep them from running wild. This brings the 

 cattle in from the plains, when their bags of milk pain them— so the 

 calves and people are both supplied without the trouble of driving in 



