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This article discusses the geographical activities classification of the Casa De La Contraction of Spain. The recent union of Castile and Aragon in Spain, with the consequent bracing of absolutism, made it a comparatively easy matter for the Sovereigns to select a private body of administrators to assist in the organization and control of new interests. Seeing that hitherto there had never been a situation quite comparable to this which had arisen and that none of the existing functionaries of government had ever been called upon to give consideration to problems touching the organization of newly acquired trans-oceanic possessions.