Election of the territorial deputies of mining: a glance through its files

Abstract

The interest of the present article, is not to make a critical study of the Peruvian mining in its different historical stages, which looks for is to approach them the development of its administration through process of election of the “Territorial Deputies”, who represented the miners or owners of mines according to which they stipulated the Decrees that were promulgated in Peru by means of a Real Order issued by Carlos III in 1785. In one first part it will be examined the legal devices that normaron the Peruvian mining before the installation of the Court, putting emphasis in the authorities which they participated or they took part in the regulation of the “mining companies”, to advance until end of century XVIII when the Decrees adapted, dictated for the territory of the New Spain, to the Peruvian virreinato by means of the Declarations of the Superintendent of the Real Property Jorge of Escobedo and to finalize the process of election of the deputies through its files by means of the use of the diplomatic tools.