Mexico in 1827 Author:Henry George Ward Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION II. The Mining System Op Mexico Before 1810; Changes Which Occurred From That Time Till 1823, When The Idea Of Foreign Companies Was First Suggested. ... more »The Number Of These Companies Now Established In MexIco, With Some Account Of Their Outlay, The Bx- Tent Of The Undertakings In Which They Are EnGaged;—The Difficulties Which Thky Have Had To Encounter;—Their Progress;—Mohb Particularly During Uy Residence In Mexico; And State In 1827 It is unnecessary for me to commence an inquiry respecting the present state of the Mining establishments of Mexico, by reverting to an epoch too distant to throw any light upon the character of the Mining laws now in force. I shall therefore merely observe that, after a period of considerable confusion and obscurity, during which all mining questions were decided by an appeal to a heterogeneous code introduced by Charles V., and composed of Old Flemish and German laws, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, an entirely new form was given to the Mining institutions of New Spain, in the year 1777, by the establishment of a Supreme Council ofMines, (denominated the Real Tribunal General del importante cuerpo de Mineria de Nueva Espana,) which was followed by the publication of a new Code of laws, (called Las Ordonanzas de Mineria,) and by the creation of Thirty-seven Provincial Councils, or Mining Deputations, (Diputaciones de Mineria,) each exercising a jurisdiction independent of the civil authority, in all mining cases, in the District assigned to it, with an appeal to the Supreme Tribunal, which resided in the Capital. The Provincial Deputations were composed of deputies, chosen annually, by the Mining proprietors of each District; and these again deputed two members of their own body to reside in the Capital, who, with a Direct...« less