(MEXICAN IMPRINT 1724) Acuña Juan de Marqués de Casa Fuerte

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(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1724.) Acuña, Juan de, Marqués de Casa Fuerte. Decree forbidding mezcal and many other alcoholic beverages. 4 pages, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet, with inked stamp of Casa Fuerte as Viceroy of New Spain, addressed to the Alcalde of Atitalaquía; moderate worming and dampstaining. Mexico, 23 December 1724

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A viceroy's decree forbidding the production and sale of a wide variety of alcoholic beverages, including "Aguardientes de Maguéi, de Caña, de Miel, Cantincara, Ololinque, Mistelas contrahechas, Vinos de cocos, Sangres de Conejo, Vinguís, Tepaches, Mescales, Guarapo, Vingarrotes" and many more because of their link to "excesos de latracinios, sacrilegios, homocidios, hostilidades, nesandos, é incestuosos desafrueroes"--larceny, sacrilege, homocide, violence, and incest. Violators will be punished with 200 lashes and 6 years in prison, whether they be Spanish, Indian, mulato or mestizo. The text begins 'Don Juan de Acuña, Marques De Casafuerte. . . . Por quanto la detestable malicia de muchos indignos . . . se han estendido por todo el Reyno, muchos abominables generos de bebidas.' Not in Medina's Mexico; 2 examples in OCLC, and none traced at auction.