Source: Situado and Sabana (ID82)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1655-01-01 - 1655-12-31
The Spanish Crown ordered Florida's vacant payroll to go toward defenses
The Crown allocated such funds [payroll for unfilled soldier plazas], known as the "sabras" or "vacancias," as it thought best:
to defenses in 1655, to pensions 20 years later, to defenses again in 1687, and once the viceroy of New Spain was instructed to send the surplus of the 1694 subsidy to Spain. It amounted to a third of the sum earmarked for plazas.
(Bushnell SS)
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