Excerpt from Spanish Institutions of the Southwest The present work was suggested to the writer while a student at the Johns Hopkins University. There coming in contact with the large amount of work which has been done iri the study of Teu tonic institutions as represented in England, Germany, and America, it seemed to him that spanish-american institutions were also worthy of investigation and especially interesting in comparison with anglo-american institutions as developed in the colonies of the Atlantic coast. A former residence of a number of years in California, where certain forms of the old civilization still remain, served to heighten the writer's interest in the subject. Its study has been profitable and interesting to the writer, though carried on during a busy university life. To the latter fact may be attributed, in part, many of the imperfections of the book, which is far removed from the author's ideal. However, it is hoped that this volume will at least awaken a deeper interest in a long neg lected part of American history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.