[1] It was not until the administration of Villanueva (’18) as intendant, an office which at that time eclipsed that of captain-general and dominated all public bodies, that taxes were for the first time imposed without the consent of those to be affected by them.

[2] America’s Insular Possessions, Philadelphia, 1906, vol. 1, pp. 98-101.

[3] Cuba, by I. A. Wright, New York, 1910.