Chapter II: The Tribunal

Gradual Delimitation into Districts 205
Organization of the Tribunal--Multiplication of Officials 208
Vain efforts to restrict the Number 211
Sale of Offices 212
Census of Officials in 1746 216
Hereditary Transmission of Office 218
Tenderness shown to official Malfeasance and its Results 223
Visitations or Inspections of the Tribunals 227
The Palace or Building of the Tribunal 230
The Personnel of the Tribunal--The Assessor 232
The Inquisitors--Their Qualifications 233
Their Duty of visiting their Districts 238
The Promotor Fiscal or Prosecutor 241
The Notaries or Secretaries 243
The Alguazil 245
The Nuncio, Portero and Gaoler 246
The Physician, Surgeon and Steward 248
Financial Officials 250
Salaries and Ayudas de Costa 251
The Records 255

CHAPTER III--UNSALARIED OFFICIALS.

Calificadores or Censors 263
Consultors 266
Commissioners 268
Familiars 272
Their excessive Numbers and Turbulence 274
Qualifications prescribed 279
Organization of officials--Hermandad de San Pedro Martir 282
Fernando VII makes it an Order of Knighthood 283