At the same time, as the encomendero and alcaldesmayores engaged in trade sold the articles received as tribute, a market for industrial products was in this wise created which provoked a demand for such merchandise.
No temiesen el vano nombre del Marques de los Velez, porque en los mayores trabajos acudia Dios a los suyos; y quando les faltase, no les podria faltar una honrosa muerte con las armas en las manos, que les estaba mejor que vivir deshonrados.
Vivo conservo la gracia de su Rey, muerto le dolio su falta, i la lloro su Reyno, que en su memoria le a conservado paro exemplo de fieles vasallos i prudentes privados de los mayores Principes.
I have condensed some passages, says they were "de los mayores y de mayor lucimiento que ha visto Europa en muchos siglos.
The audiencia should hear cases appealed from the alcaldes mayores and corregidores instead of allowing these suits to be heard by the governor or sent to Mexico.
The last year's salaries of alcaldes mayores and corregidores were withheld, pending investigations of their official conduct and a rendering of accounts of collections made by them.
The audiencia should exercise supervision over the alcaldes mayores in their relation to the encomiendas, with a view to remedying the existing abuses and seeing that justice was done to the Indians.
The alcaldes mayores ruled the native population through these chiefs at this time.
Tributes from the Indians, tithes from the encomenderos and other kinds of local taxes were collected by the alcaldes mayores and corregidores.
These encomiendas were under the jurisdiction of the alcaldes mayores and corregidores governing those provinces.
The alcaldes mayoresand the corregidores still functioned as judges of first instance and as governors of the provinces.
But there were some differences: while in Spain the alcaldes were in most cases city judges, subject to the corregidores, [41] in the colonies there was little or no difference between alcaldes mayores and corregidores.
The magistrates, as visitors, were to inquire into the character of service rendered by the alcaldes mayores in the administration of government and justice.
It has been already pointed out that the alcaldes mayores and corregidores had extensive judicial duties; a mere restatement of that important fact will suffice at this time.
It seems that the oficiales reales merely supervised the collection of tribute, which was really accomplished in the provinces by the alcaldes mayores and corregidores, who acted as their agents.
Appointment of eighteen civil governors instead of alcaldes--mayores of provinces.
Up to this time the Alcaldes Mayores of provinces had been allowed to trade, and, in fact, were almost the only traders in their provinces, buying up the whole crop.
After centuries of rule, the Alcaldes Mayores were abolished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mayores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
