Title: Lerdo law - Wikipedia
Headings: Lerdo law
Lerdo law
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Background
Excluded properties
Fiscal consolidation
Impact on native communities
References
Further reading
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Content: During the Bourbon Reforms, the Spanish monarchy sought to undermine the power of the Church, especially the Society of Jesus, and so it expelled the Jesuits, confiscated their highly-productive landed estates, and sold them to private individuals. During the colonial era, the Spanish crown had granted to indigenous communities a certain amount as corporations to ensure that they had sufficient land to maintain their subsistence. After independence in 1821, the ecclesiastical rights to hold real estate were challenged in the 1830s during the vice-presidency of Valentín Gómez Farías, who implemented the secularization of Franciscan missions in California . Excluded properties
The law excluded properties that were used by the Church as a corporation for religious purposes. As stipulated in Article 8 of the law, the properties were exempt from the alienation if they buildings used immediately and directly to the service or the object of the institute's corporations, even if part was leased in them, such as convents, episcopal palaces, municipal schools, hospitals, hospices, markets, and houses of correction charities. Properties belonging to municipalities also exempted buildings, open lands and land used exclusively for the public service of their populations. Fiscal consolidation
All translations of rural and urban properties executed under the law had a 5% sales tax, which was to be paid in the corresponding general government offices. The tax contribution was to be in cash and debt bonds, depending on the time to verify the awards. By those policies, the Mexican government intended to increase its low level of tax revenue to improve the public finances. Impact on native communities
The law required that civil corporations to be stripped of their real estate and so seriously damaged the foundation of the economy of indigenous communities, which owned all of the land in their boundaries.