History of Bolivia to 1809 reduction in silver output. After 1700 only small amounts of bullion from Upper Peru were shipped to Spain. Kings from the Bourbon Dynasty in Spain tried to reform the colonial economy in the mid-eighteenth century by reviving mining. The Spanish crown provided the financial support necessary to develop deeper shafts, and in 1736 it agreed to lower the tax rate from 20 to 10 percent of the total output. The crown also helped create a minerals purchasing bank, the Banco de San Carlos in 1751 and subsidized the price of mercury to local mines. The foundation of an academy of
Anne Marie de Bourbon Anne Marie de Bourbon Anne Marie de Bourbon (Anne Marie Victoire; 11 August 1675 – 23 October 1700. ) was the daughter of the Prince of Condé and of a Bavarian princess. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a "Princesse du Sang". She never married and died of lung disease. "Anne Marie" Victoire was the seventh child born to the Duke and Duchess of Enghien. Her father was the only surviving son of "le Grand Condé" while her mother was a daughter of the political hostess Anna Gonzaga. She was born at the Hôtel de