As cogent testimony to their more than acceptable performance, one of these high court magistrates, Manuel del Campo y Rivas, informed the viceroy in 1809 that he believed Mariano Uruena, the deputy scribe who assisted him and the four alcaldes de barrio in his district, hod been trained at the Real Colegio de Escribanos and had passed the exam supervised by the Audiencia.

This cre dit was typically provided in the form of cash advances by local Spanish officials known as alcaldes mayores, for which repayment was contracted in the form of the dyestuff at rates which remained remarkably stable throughout the period.

Un estado elegia gobernador en agosto; y el ano siguiente alcaldes y diputados.