sometimes in a vague manner, which often lead to confusion, as in the case between Juan de Oñate and the Viceroy of New Spain. The title was also granted both as an inheritable title and one that lasted for one life only. With the publication of the Ordinances Concerning Discoveries (Ordenanzas de descubrimientos, nueva población y pacificación de las Indias) in 1573, the attributes of adelantados became regularized, although the title was granted with much less frequency after this date, especially since the institutions of audiencias, governors and viceroys had been developed. Nevertheless, the Ordinances are useful because they illustrate the faculties adelantados often had. The Ordinances established that adelantados, in their capacity as governors and justices of the new territories, had the right to hear civil and criminal cases in appeal, to name the regidores and employees of the cabildos of any towns founded, to name interim treasury officials, to issue ordinances on the use of land and mines, to establish districts, and to organize militias and name their captains. The first use of the title adelantado in the Americas was by Bartolomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, who governed Hispaniola under this title during his brother's absence from 1494 to 1498. It was later inherited by Diego Colón after much litigation. Other conquistadors who were granted the title include: 1512: Juan Ponce de León for Florida and Biminí, renewed in 1524 for his son, Luis. 15?? Rodrigo de Bastidas for Isthmus of Panama and Santa Marta 1514: Vasco Núñez de Balboa for the South Sea. 1518: Ferdinand Magellan for the Spice Islands. 1518: Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar for Yucatán. 1527: Pánfilo de Narváez for Florida. 1527: Pedro de Alvarado for Guatemala. 1529: Francisco Pizarro for Peru, and Pedro de Mendoza for Argentina. 1535: Pedro Fernández de Lugo for Santa Marta (as son of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, Adelantado of Tenerife and La Palma, he was a second-generation adelantado). 1537: Hernando de Soto for Florida. 1538: Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada for New Kingdom of Granada. 1540: Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca for Río de la Plata. 1549: Pedro de Valdivia for Chile. 1565: Juan Vásquez de Coronado for Costa Rica 1565: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés for Florida. 1571: Miguel López de Legazpi for the Philippines. 1595: Alvaro de Mendaña, and after his death his wife Isabel Barreto, for the Solomon Islands, and Juan de Oñate for the Kingdom of