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Printed form for a power of attorney, in gothic type, completed and filled out in a notorial manuscript hand, notarized and signed at Puebla, by Juan de Bedoya in December of 1581. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Carta de poder (1581) Mexico, Pedro Balli or Pedro Ocharte? UC San Diego's copy housed in: Carpenter, Edwin H. A Sixteenth Century Mexican Broadside. Los Angeles : Dawson's Book Shop, 1965 Printing of form attributed variously to Pedro Balli or Pedro Ocharte, both among the earliest printers in the New World. Cf. Szewczyk & Buffington, who attribute a nearly identical Carta de poder to Pedro Balli; also Carpenter, who states "Valtón attributes to Pedro Ocharte."
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Sources Forms (Law) History Power of attorney New Spain Mexico
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