Abstract

SUAREZ-SANCHEZ, Fernando  and  RESTREPO-BERRIO, Julieta. Registration Ordinance for Cartagena de Indias (1777). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2020, n.38, pp.250-266. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n38.84007.

This transcript corresponds to a copy of a regulation, whose original is in the General Archive of Simancas, on the ordering and function of the maritime province of Cartagena de Indias, and the civil and military status of seafarers and teachers within the naval recruitment system called Sea Registration in that province. The document is rich with information related to the production of documents, bureaucratic functions, institutional competences, economic activities and obligations of artisans and fishermen who inhabited the coasts of the Viceroyalty of New Granada at the end of the 18th century.

Keywords : sea registration; registrants; seafarers; charter; Cartagena de Indias; 18^th century.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )