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Child welfare, Social conditions, Public health, Abandoned children, Colonies, Legal status, lawsPlaces
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Dated and signed on p. [14-15]: Dada en San Lorenzo a once de diciembre de mil setecientos noventa y seis. Yo el rey. Manuel de Godoy.
Further certified on p. [15]: Fecha en [blank] á [blank] de [blank] de mil setecientos noventa y siete. [blank]
Printed at foot p. [15]: Para que en los reynos de Indias é Islas Filipinas se observe el reglamento inserto para la policía general de expósitos, en los términos que se expresa.
Real cédula giving a new set of instructions regarding the hygiene and treatment of abandoned children in America and in all his dominions. The king, aware of the high mortality of abandoned children in his domains, sends precise instruction for the medical treatment and hygiene of these orphan children; it includes the creation of nursuries, clothing, payment of women to feed the children, and everything related to their care.
Signatures: a⁸ (a8 verso blank)
Purchase; 2017; 18-224.
John Carter Brown Library copy is printed on tax-stamped paper dated 1797.
John Carter Brown Library copy has certification on p. [15] filled in as: Fecha en Aranjez á tres de mayo de mil setecientos noventa y siete. Yo el rey. Por mand[a]do del rey n[ues]tro s[eñ]or Silbestre Collar [secretary of the Council of the Indies]
John Carter Brown Library copy is numbered in ms. hand from 166-179 in upper right hand corner of leaves.
John Carter Brown Library copy disbound; final leaf semi-detached.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Divestiture Fund.
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