In 1536 legislation for changing the method of general government and regulating common pasturages and public property caused extreme dissatisfaction, but for many years thereafter the form of control alternated between alcaldes selected by the inhabitants and annual governors appointed by the Council of the Indies.
In spite of the precautions of the popes, the Miserere has long been public property.
More than a third of the forests are public property and furnish a considerable addition to the revenue.
A few of the less important of his criticisms, such as the argument on miracles, became then and have since remained public property and matter of general discussion.
It became public property in 1892.
