In September 1173 Ponce was still in Castile when he granted some land at Azaña to some settlers: "In the name of God and his grace, I, Count Ponce, give to the settlers that half of Azaña that fell to me".Barton, Aristocracy in León and Castile, 59. The fuero is edited in Barton, Aristocracy in León and Castile, Appendix 3, no. XV, 325–27. The translated excerpt in Latin is (p. 325): In Dei nomine et eius gratia. Ego Poncius Comes dono populatoribus illam medietatem de Façania que me contigit. The "charter of rights and obligations" (called a fuero) that he gave to the settlers exists as a thirteenth-century copy in a cartulary of the cathedral of Toledo. Ponce kept a few fields—two sernas and two prados—for himself (demesne), but the rest of the land he rented out to twenty-five settlers. Each received a field (yugada), some additional land for planting vines and orchards, and eight cahices of seed for wheat. The fuero requires that any settler who wished to sell his property and leave the area had to give Ponce the first option to buy, even if he was away on campaign in the south, in which case the would-be seller had to await his return. Another clause gives an indication of his reconciliation with the King of León, for it states that if Ponce was away in the north, either "in the kingdom of Alfonso or in the kingdom of Ferdinand", then the would-be seller had to notify Ponce's majordomo of his intention to sell and wait forty days for Ponce to exercise his option to buy, after which the settler could sell the land to anyone.Barton, "Two Catalan Magnates", 263–64: in regno regis Aldefonsi uel in regno regis Fernandi.
