Broadside issued by the viceroy of New Spain communicating regulations concerning the production of aguardiente. Sets forth locations where it is permissible to make this alcoholic beverage, and further stipulates that Mexican made aguardiente must be distringuishable from the Castillian product in two ways: the beverage must be white in color, and it must be transported in flat shaped containers ("de figura chata") called castañas, rather than in the rounded barrels used in Castilla

• 1796?

• Branciforte, Miguel de la Grúa y Talamanca, marqués de, approximately 1755-1812

• New Spain

• New Spain, Viceroy (1794-1798 : Branciforte)

1 sheet ([1] page) ; 81 x 58 cm

Main text begins: La soberana piedad del Rey nuestro señor , siempre dispuesta á llenar de beneficios y felicidades á sus amados vasallos, se dignó oir benignamente mis informes puros y súplicas humildes, determinando por real orden de 19 de marzo último que en este reyno se permitiese la libre fábrica y expendio del aguardiente de caña ó chinguirito

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Title from caption and first lines of text

"Dado en México á 9 de diciembre de 1796."

• Mexico
• Spain

• History
• Sources

• Alcoholic beverage industry
• Politics and government

• text

• Spanish; Castilian

[Mexico] :, [publisher not identified],

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