Note XXII‑15 — Chapter XXII · AFFAIRS IN PANAMÁ. 1551-1600.

The city council passed an ordinance that in future merchants should not purchase certain articles in larger quantities at a time than therein provided. Wine, oil, ham, sugar, pease, beans, lard, Nicaragua molasses, cheese, raisins, figs, and crockery, are among the commodities specified. Purchasers were required to produce their wares before a justice. The ordinance was referred to the audiencia and was fully approved and ordered into execution Dec. 11, 1592. Reales Cédulas, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 233-7.