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Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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A royal order in Havana suppresses monastic and religious orders, mandating sale of their properties including estates and slaves, with proceeds to the Spanish treasury and allowances for the dispossessed. Commissioners include the Governor, Bishop, and others. Seen as prelude to broader Spanish changes.
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Letters from the Havana, state an important occurrence—the almost entire suppression of the monastic and religious orders in that island, and which of course will not be confined to that colony. A Royal Order has lately been received there for the sale of all property belonging to those Religious Establishments; consisting of houses and lands, sugar and coffee estates, and negroes, as well as mortgages, debts, &c. due to them. The monies arising therefrom are to be paid into the Treasury of the King who will provide for the persons so dispossessed, by paying them a certain allowance per diem for their support. The revenue arising therefrom must, doubtless, be immense; and the sources to which this serious innovation may be traced, do not require the gift of divination to ascertain, it may perhaps be considered as only a preliminary step to more serious changes in the Spanish Government and nation.
The Commissioners nominated to enforce the aforesaid decree in the Havana, and the Island, are—the Governor, the Bishop, the Intendant General, the Collector of the Customs, and Don. J. B. Munoz.
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Havana
Event Date
Lately
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sale of all property belonging to religious establishments including houses, lands, sugar and coffee estates, negroes, mortgages, and debts; monies paid into the king's treasury; allowances per diem for dispossessed persons; potential preliminary to more serious changes in spanish government.
Event Details
Letters from Havana report the suppression of monastic and religious orders via a Royal Order for selling their properties, with proceeds to the treasury and support for the affected individuals. Commissioners appointed to enforce the decree.