anner, and goes to vespers and mass at Santa
Potenciana. In the time of the former royal Audiencia, they used
to go with the pennant to the royal houses with the city officers,
and from there the president and auditors set out to the festival;
and the president had the standard-bearer at his left hand, and the
senior auditor at his right. I am informed that the same thing is done
in the city of Lima and that of Mexico. I have had this custom observed
here; but the licentiate Almazan, auditor of this royal Audiencia,
has denied that the standard-bearer or any other person should be
stationed with the royal Audiencia without special permission from
your Majesty, whom I beg to be pleased to command in this what shall
be done. In the meantime, it will be continued as hitherto.

36. _That public feast-days are celebrated with veneration and
dignity_.

I assure your Majesty that the other public feast-days, such as Corpus
Christi, that of the patrons of the city, and the like, are celebrated
with the utmost veneration and dignity in this land, where we are in
the sight of so many heathen.

37. _That it is expedient that the Indians be punished with some
moderate fine of money, and not in rice._

Your Majesty has ordered that the Indians shall not be punished
in money fines; but as they all, in their perverseness and evil
disposition, are more afraid of the punishment of taking from them a
real than of a hundred floggings, the desired results do not follow,
and they do not plant, raise animals, and do other things tending to
the production of supplies, and to the common good. It would be well
for your Majesty to give permission for the imposition of moderate
fines in money. It is particularly unfitting that the chiefs should
be flogged, and in regard to this the royal Audiencia has commenced
to take some action. May our Lord protect the Catholic person of your
Majesty through many happy years. Manila, July 12, 1599.

_Francisco Tello_

_An account of the religious orders which are in these Philipinas
Islands; the provinces, houses, and religious contained in them;
and the ministers whom it is necessary that his Majesty should have
sent, in order that there may be sufficient religious instruction in
the islands_.

_St. Augustine--60 houses; they have 163 religious, and ask for 20
each year_. The Order of St. Augustine has occupied the provinces of
Tagalos, Pampanga, Ylocos, and Pintados. Being the first established in