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disquiet and mischief that a change and disturbance so great in a country 
so far from your royal presence might and can bring, for, although all 
the country has faith that the royal intention of your Majesty was in¬ 
fluenced by holy zeal, as a Christian and Catholic prince, it also under¬ 
stands that your Majesty was not well informed of the reasons why this 
measure is to the advantage of what concerns the service of your Majesty. 
The other principal cause for which we came in the name of the said 
land is for the universal remedy and perpetuity of the land, for which, as 
above said, they were waiting every day. 
We humbly supplicate that your Majesty 
order remedial measures to be taken for 
what concerns the service of God, our Lord, 
the preservation of the natives of that land 
and the increase of your royal revenues, and in order that the Spaniards 
who are in those parts may be remunerated for their services and may 
settle and populate the land, which is the principal thing, and the founda¬ 
tion of all the reasons why this ought to be done. Among other reasons 
that there are for it the following may be examined: 
One. What we said at the beginning of this, our petition, ought to be 
considered, which is that the Spaniards who are in it and have gone 
there, gained and explored all that land at their own expense, without pay 
or emolument from your Majesty, and that they have maintained and 
do maintain it by having placed and now placing their persons and 
property in its defense and conservation, many of their fathers and 
brothers and relatives having shed their blood and died there and having 
used up their lives and property. 
Another reason. This being so, it is clear that by divine and human 
right, perpetual remuneration is owing to them, for what they gained is 
perpetual, and it would be an inhuman thing if in their old age they should 
have to go out anew to seek food for themselves and their wives and 
children. 
Another reason. All those who governed, understanding that this way 
would be to the advantage of the service of your Majesty and the relief 
of your royal conscience, divided the land, and it has been thus since the 
country was acquired, up to the year of ’30, with the consent and appro¬ 
bation of your Majesty. 
Another reason. As has been said, and in greater confirmation of the 
partition that was being made to them, your Majesty, by your provision, 
granted to New Spain and its inhabitants and the persons who held the 
Indians in encomienda, that after their days were ended their wives and 
children should succeed to them, and that with them they could endow 
their sons and daughters, offering them perpetuity in it, and that orders 
would be given for the rest as soon as all the land should be divided. 
Another reason. Confiding in this grant and perpetual hope, many 
married and took wives from these kingdoms, mortgaging their property 
and supporting in their houses many Spaniards who have gone to that 
land, and until now they have been waiting for the universal measure 
for it. 
The universal remedy for 
the land: 
Permanent repartimiento. 
