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Documentation concerning evidence used in an 18th century legal case which took c. 30 yrs, by the community of Pamparomas against the Dominican Colegio de Santo Tomas about land and water rights. The documents include transcriptions of earlier 16th and 17th century material used in evidence as w...
Documentation concerning evidence used in a legal case by the community of Pamparomas against the Dominican Colegio de Santo Tomas about land and water rights. Decrees, wills, and other manuscripts from as early as 1591 were copied out and included in the manuscript to support the community case...
The manuscript details that in the 1770s, Colonel Cayetano Paxuelo drove the people of Pamparomas off of their land. The people were left with small plots and worked as laborers in the nearby hacienda of Pampas. The village lands were transferred to the hacienda of Santa Catalina, owned by the D...
From the mid-1770s, the Pamparomas villagers again contested their removal, but to no avail. Their case was taken up again in the 1790s, under Cacica Doña Maria Vilcarima, widow of the former Cacique Marcelo Quispe Condor. She triumphed, and in 1793, the people of Pamparomas were granted titles ...
The Dominicans appealed the decision against them, claiming that the village of Pamparomas had never actually existed, and that the so-called villagers had been workers on the Pampas hacienda since the sixteenth century. The Governor of Huarochiri helped to make the case for appeared with a miss...
County Council of Nairobi Minute books held by the McMillan Memorial Library
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Minute Book records of the County Council of Nairobi from 1920s to 1950s. Custodial history: The material is owned by the McMillan Memorial Library. Arrangement: Each volume in the collection has a unique accession number. Related towns/cities: Nairobi. This collection contains the following...
Municipal Council of Nairobi Minutes of Proceedings of The Council and of the Several Committees Thereof for the Month of January, 1940
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Extent: 1 file containing 11 items. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26cm, Width 20.8cm, Height 0.1cm. Related towns/cities: Nairobi. This file contains the following 11 items: EAP1357/1/5/1: Municipal Council of Nairobi Minutes of Proceedings of The Council and of the Several...
Extent: 1 file containing 140 items. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26cm, Width 19.5cm, Height 9cm. Volume number: Vol. XXV. Related towns/cities: Nairobi. This file contains the following 140 items: EAP1357/1/7/1: Index, 1957-1958 [Images 1-49] EAP1357/1/7/2: City Council ...
Municipal Council of Nairobi Minutes of Proceedings of The Council and of the Several Committees thereof for the month of July 1940
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Extent: 1 file containing 12 items. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 26.0cm. Width 20.9cm. Depth 0.3cm. Related regions: Nairobi. Related towns/cities: Nairobi. This file contains the following 12 items: EAP1357/1/16/1: Minutes of Proceedings of The Council and of the Several...
Municipal Council of Nairobi Minutes of Proceedings of The Council and of the Several Committees thereof for the month of August 1940
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Extent: 1 file containing 11 items. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 25.9cm. Width 20.4cm. Depth 0.2cm. Condition of original material: The Pages Have Been Written In. Related regions: Nairobi. Related towns/cities: Nairobi. This file contains the following 11 items: EAP1357...
