Note XXII‑30 — Chapter XXII · AFFAIRS IN PANAMÁ. 1551-1600.
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Reales Cédulas, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xvii. 531-2; confirmed by Vazquez, Chron. de Gvat., 222-3, and Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., ix. 89-90. Juarros, Guat., states that it did not receive the royal approbation until July 7, 1565. In the beginning of 1560 a royal cédula was issued, vesting the government of Tierra Firme in the president of the audiencia residing in Panamá. The people of Guatemala resisted the change as long as they could, and other mandates were necessary to give full force to this measure. See Reales Ced., in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xviii. 531-2, and Decadas, in Id., xiii. 36-38.