Those affected by the new laws were almost all the Spaniards of the colony, many of them far advanced in years, who had passed through all the trying period of the conquest, and whom the new laws would leave in abject poverty.
Oni koji su bili pogođeni novim zakonima bili su skoro svi Španjolci u koloniji, mnogi od njih daleko odmakli u godinama, koji su prošli kroz sve pokušaje iz razdoblja osvajanja, a koje bi novi zakoni ostavili u bijedi.