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In 1795, for example, a surgeon named José Sánchez Camaño, who had been practicing for two months in the Valle de Santiago, located in the intendancy of Guanajuato, protested that a horde of curanderos, bleeders, and old women were allowed to practice freely.

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Zurtila, in the intendancy of Oaxaca, on the eastern slopes of the

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Unfortunate it is that Bigot's astounding depravity has led too many readers and writers of Canadian history to look upon the intendancy of New France as a post held chiefly by rascals.

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

Without the intendancy the seigneurial system would soon have become an agent of oppression, for some Canadian seigneurs were quite as avaricious as their friends at home.

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

So long as it fitted into the needs of the colony, so long as the intendancy remained to guard the people against seigneurial avarice, the system had a great deal to be said in its behalf.

The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

Through official connections a place was subsequently found for him in that public department under the Manchus which may be called the military intendancy, and it was through this branch of the civil service that he rose to power.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

Talon, who took a strong interest in the subject, during his intendancy recommended Captain Poulet,

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Worthless as he was, he found a place in the Court circle of the Governor, and aspired to supplant Bigot in the intendancy.

Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

Notwithstanding the expense incurred under the intendancy of Don

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Calonne was called from an intendancy to the general control of the finances.

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840