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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Maybe Poppy has spending money because he doesn?t blow it on rum and restaurant food, like most of t
Maybe Poppy has spending money because he doesn?t blow it on rum and restaurant food, like most of the soldiers. Maybe he sits at the tavern but brings his own (qualified) mug of water, which the tavern owner feels conflicted about because Poppy attracts a crowd, but also inspires others to consider not drinking (unsuccessfully).
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An auditor insisted SA soldiers pay import tax
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID 83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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Auditor Pedro Redondo Villegas, coming to Florida in 1600, ordered that almorifazgos be collected on all imports regardless of point of origin, seller, carrier, consignee, or kinds of goods. In his view, supplies bought with situado funds were as liable to entry duties as the goods purchased by individuals. AN80 The treasury officials in St. Augustine, as purchasing agents for the garrison, were accustomed to buy naval supplies tax-free from the skippers of passing ships. Their defense was that if the treasury charged the skipper an almorifazgo, he added the amount of it to his price and the cost was passed on to the soldiers, which they could ill afford. But when the auditor insisted that even naval supplies were subject to import duties, the treasury officials acceded without further protest; the revenue was to be applied to their salaries. [Note 60: Juan Menendez Marquez, Juan Lopez de Aviles, and Bartolome de Arguelles 9/13/1600] At San Juan de Ulua, the port for Vera Cruz, the officials imposed an import almorifazgo of 10% on Spanish goods, based on the appraised value of the goods in their port. The Florida officials assumed that their own import tax on the same goods should be 10% of the increase in value between the appraisal at San Juan de Ulua and the appraisal they made in St. Augustine. Redondo Villegas, rummaging about in Juan de Cevadilla’s old papers, found what was probably the tax schedule of 1572-74 saying that the proper percentage was 5 if the goods had paid 10% already. [Note 61: Bartolome de Arguelles, Juan Menendez Marquez, and Pedro Lopez de San Julian 1/23/1602] Presumably this was the rate the royal officials adopted for Spanish merchandise that did not come directly from Spain. They collected it in a share of the goods, which they exchanged preferably for cash at auction. Auditor Redondo Villegas had gone too far. In 1604 the crown repeated the presidio’s 1593 exemption with clarifications for his benefit: (Bushnell KC)