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Rh with regard to privileges and immunities. Doubt also penal ss as to repartimientos. Meanwhile the queen, by cédula of the 20th of March, 1532, sanctioned the proceeding, and instructed the audiencia to advance the settlement as fully as lay in its power, granting exemption from taxation for thirty years. She also conferred upon the town the title of city, and granted it a coat of arms appropriate to its name of Puebla de los Angeles.

Yet for some time discontent prevailed among the colonists, and their numbers decreased considerably. But this unfavorable state of affairs did not last for many years, as in 1535 a subscription to the amount