RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS of THE P.K. YONGE LIBRARY of FLORIDA HISTORY. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, NUMBER ONE THE FLORIDA SITUADO: QUANTIFYING THE FIRST EIGHTY YEARS, 1571-1651. By ENGEL SLUITER (Author), University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, Florida, 1985.
 
Florida History
ISBN:  9789995269760
 
For the past two decades, the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History has engaged in an aggressive program to collect, catalogue, and calendar primary materials bearing on the two Spanish periods of Florida history. Now with this pamphlet, the library has launched a series of occasional research papers to highlight the richness of its holdings on Spanish Florida.
 
In this study, Engel Sluiter analyzes the Florida subsidy (situado) for 81 years, 1571-1651. He first provides a well-documented, succinct nine-page history of the situado, those funds sent from Mexico for the military defense of Florida, gifts to the Indians, and support of the Franciscan friars serving in that inhospitable frontier region. A detailed table for this epoch listing the subsidy year, initial grant allocation, payment period, date and amount actually remitted, and purpose of the subsidy payments rounds out the study.
 
University of Florida publication with a map illustrated cover. Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear with the original owner name at the inside cover. About 8-1/2 x 11 oblong with 20 pages plus a fold-out map. Softcover book. Scarce.