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Mexico HistoryMexico before 1900 had its economy based largely on ranching and peón labor. The large ranches, or haciendas, were self-sufficient units encompassing many smaller ranches and villages. Each hacienda usually had its own church or chapel. the peones were bound to the hacienda by a system of debt peonage. Everything the peones received, even down the the meat from an occasional steer slaughtered for them, was entered on their accounts, and it was almost impossible for the peones ever to become free from debt. When they were transferred from one hacienda to another, their accounts were transferred with them. Thus, the notations in church records regarding the origin of those married or baptized was an effective means of keeping track of the populace.A considerable number of peones worked for short, irregular periods. The administrator of each hacienda kept careful records of the days missed by each peón, and his wages were reduced accordingly. Sometimes peones reached the point of desperation and fled. The peones were almost invariably in debt when they fled the hacienda. If they went to another hacienda, they would be sent back to their former residence and punished. If a peón wished to marry, he first obtained a voucher from the administrator of the hacienda good for fees charged for performing the ceremony. The peón next took the voucher to the priest and was subsequently married. The priest saved the vouchers and periodically delivered them to the administrator of the hacienda, together with a detailed report of the marriages, baptisms, and burials he had performed. the administrator then paid the priest from hacienda funds, entering the cost of the ceremonies onthe individual peón's account. Baptisms were performed for one or two pesos; marriages for about fifteen pesos, and burials for ten pesos. The virtual impossibility that a peón could save ten or fifteen pesos from his nominal cash wage of five pesos a month meant that in order to get married, buried, or baptized, he or his family had to go further into debt. It would seem that many of the peones were never buried in the church cemetery, baptized or married in the church. Information provided by Robert Mcalear Coahuila History Links Our Hispanic Heritage by Rolando J. Diaz We should take pride in our history. 
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