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tequitzontli.

Headword: 
tequitzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

tribute collected by an indigenous municipality over and above that owing to Spanish officials or encomenderos

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Excess maize tribute could be anything left over after the king's 8,000 fanegas were paid and this could be a municipality's main source of revenue. Such was the case in Tlaxcala. The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545–1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 25.

themes: 
Tributes, Taxation, Service