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Rh the first time since the riot, but the sessions of the audiencia were not resumed until the 30th. On this latter date the viceroy made a full report to the crown of the riot and of his subsequent measures, which were approved.

Habitual intoxication among the natives was justly regarded as one of the chief causes of the late outbreak, and the use or sale of pulque in the city was strictly forbidden, though the order was little regarded, and to deprive the natives of a beverage to the use of which they had been accustomed from childhood was a measure of doubtful policy. On the 19th of July, the day on which the manufacture and sale of the liquor was prohibited throughout New Spain under heavy penalties, a mestizo was whipped in the capital for having in his possession a pitcher of pulque. In a few years, however, its use and sale were again permitted.

Neither stalls nor booths were again allowed to be erected in the plaza, and in their place a spacious