We shall yet find that there is a further step in this matter, before the repartimiento assumes its utmost development.
The repartimiento had now grown to its second state--not lands only, but lands and the tillage of them.
It is noticeable that in this document there is no mention of Indians, so that they had not come to form portion of a repartimiento at this period.
Carvajal had resolved to have put one Melchior Verdugo to death, who dwelt in Truxillo; but as Verdugo got intimation of this intention, he fled to the province of Caxamarca, where his repartimiento of Indians was situated.
Item: No Indians shall be granted in encomiendas by repartimiento to the clerks of our said Audiencia.
In my instructions your Majesty granted me the favor and permission to obtain a repartimiento of Indians from each of the new settlements--to be in all three repartimientos.
Your Majesty gave him the government and a certain repartimiento for two generations.
To correct this, it would be fitting that your Majesty order that such resignation should not be made in any manner; and that in such cases the governor cannot assign any repartimiento of Indians.
He also asked me to give him permission to assign the said seminary a repartimiento of a thousand Indians, the first one that should be vacant.
They get another equal amount for themselves, for which repartimiento is made among the Indians at the same prices [as for the king].
Consequently, when I received the said letters, I had already suppressed the repartimiento of rice, a thing so unjust and harmful, as they informed your Majesty and as I wrote last year.
One important object of the repartimiento system was to assure a suitable distribution of native labor throughout the island.
Although the repartimiento system, adopted early in the administration of Velasquez, was designed and supposed to put all the natives under government control, it failed to do so.
In addition, he passionately adjured Velasquez, for the sake of his own soul, to free all the natives and to abolish the repartimiento system.
Nevertheless, the repartimiento system soon lapsed into utter evil, as such a relationship between a superior and an inferior race seems certain to do.
The Repartimiento was the distribution, among the natives, of articles of European production.
But, subsequently, the Repartimiento became a source of oppression and fraud, in the hands of the provincial authorities.
On his death the king resumed to himself the island of Mona, which he had given to him for life, and transferred his repartimiento of two hundred Indians to the vice-queen Doña Maria.
We have now arrived," continues Helps, "at the climax of the repartimiento system.
This repartimiento possessed a large amount of provisions, and is called Vitis and Lau.
In those islands he was to have had a repartimientowhich they say was a very good one.
The encomenderos urged that the governor should make the number of each repartimiento equal to the list.
Upon Pedro de la Renteria, the Governor conferred a repartimiento of lands and Indians adjoining the one given to Las Casas and the two had their business interests in common.
The system of giving the Indians in encomienda and repartimiento is absolutely contrary to the royal commands issued by Queen Isabella to Columbus and his successors during her reign.
I assume, at the start, that it is a great piece of ignorance to attribute this repartimiento to Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara, or to make him its author.
That the Indians in the repartimiento shall be lessened in number as the voluntary workers shall be introduced, whether the latter be Indians or those of other nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repartimiento" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
