The Conseil of the Indies is the administrative institution most important of the Spanish America and the Filipino during the 16th-17th centuries. It represents the king and has executive powers, legal and legislative.

History

It is founded in 1523 by the Kings Catholiques which called Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca to analyze the problems of colonization since Christophe Colomb. It supervises also maritime forwardings on the basis of Spain for America. Reformed in 1714 with the creation of the ministry for the living room, it did not have any more an administrative office. There remains thus until its disappearance in 1834.

It is following a recommendation of the Council of the Indies that Charles Quint takes his decree abolishing slavery in officially 1526, and establishing deprivation of goods and functions for whoever would devote itself to it. The testimony of Bartolomé de Las Put at the time of the Controverse of Valladolid will show thereafter that to thousands of kilometers of the Capacity, this decree had remained dead letter.

Composition

There are a president and eight advisers of the Indies , which are civils servant.

Attributions of the Council of the Indies

The council excerce with the monarch. The king receives the president of the Council of the Indies each week and informs it on the state of the colony.

Attribution of the government

• temporal Government : All the administration of the Spanish America belongs to the Council of the Indies, it owes
• Gouverner for the king
• Examiner the laws originating in America

Moreover, there is between the Alta policía and the Baja policía an organization of the municipal capacities.

• spiritual Government : He is concerned with businesses of the religion and businesses with the the Holy See .

Attributions of war

The members of the Conseil of guerres' meet, see the military strategies. Versl has fine 16th century of the Ministers for the cape and sword integrates the Conseil of War .

Ground attributions

• Examines the accounts of official royal the

Attribution of justice

Control the Audiencia and must know

• the notorious acts of injustices
• Connaître the businesses misent in calls.

See too

General Files of the Indies

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