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- Title
THE CASA DE LA CONTRATACIÓN IN THE INDIES: ADMINISTRATION AND THE ISSUING AND CONTROL OF DOCUMENTS (16<sup>TH</sup>-18<sup>TH</sup> CENTURIES).
- Authors
Fernández López, Francisco
- Abstract
This article presents a synthesis of procedures at the Casa de la Contratación in The Indies related to decision-making and the issuing and control of documents. Also, it analyzes the structure, functioning and competencies of the Chamber of Government and the Accounting office (Sala de Gobierno and Contaduría), two organs within that institution responsible for -respectively- resolving matters brought before it and elaborating and registering the documents issued.
- Subjects
DECISION making in government policy; GOVERNMENT agencies; 18TH century Spanish history
- Publication
Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 2015, Issue 144, p336
- ISSN
0185-3929
- Publication type
Article