THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CAJA REAL IN VALLADOLID

Abstract

This article offers a first look at a key institution in the taxation during the
colonial period: The Cajas Reales. The Royal Cash Box in Valladolid is a forgotten
institution for the historiography from Michoacan, and although studies have
been conducted on the Intendancy of Valladolid and the Bourbon reforms, not
enough interest has been paid to this tax short-lived but important institution
over the last decades of colonial Michoacán. The aim of this paper is to show when
and how it was founded, its officers, their powers and the conflicts triggered by
various institutions and authorities from Michoacán.