d hospital, a farm for cattle, with a thousand head;
ten mares, four colts, and one horse; six men slaves with five married
slave women, and three other unmarried women and two unmarried men;
and four hundred pesos, in coin. Besides this, Antonio Valerio, steward
of the said hospital, has put in charge of me, the said accountant,
a quantity of money received from various persons. The said Antonio
Valerio has also rendered an itemized account of the whole thereof,
from the first of September of the said year ninety-eight to the end
of December of the same, and the expenses in that time amount to five
hundred and thirty-seven pesos and one tomin; he likewise rendered
another account in this year of ninety-nine, from the first of January
to the end of April thereof, and the itemized expense account amounted
to seven hundred and fifteen pesos and four tomins, as appears by the
book which is in my possession. Besides, all necessary provision was
made for divine worship in the said hospital. The said hospital has
a house of stone, amply adequate, with three halls and apartments,
and everything necessary and pertaining thereto. The said steward
has no further account to give, because by command of his Lordship
the accounts are audited every four months, and he will give what is
lacking at the end of August of this year. That this matter may be
understood, I have given this, at Manila, on the second of July in
the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine.

_Bartolome de Rrenteria_

_Copy of the instruction given to the alcaldes-mayor of the provinces
and to the religious, for the Indians to render submission to the
king our lord, and the measures taken in La Laguna. Cited in clause
10 of the governor's letter of July 12, 1599_.

The King: To Don Francisco Tello, knight of the habit of Santiago, my
governor and captain-general of the Philipinas Islands, and president
of my royal Audiencia, which I have ordered reestablished in the
city of Manila in the said islands; or to the person or persons in
whose charge the government of them may be. Fray Miguel de Venavides
of the Order of St. Dominic, bishop of Nueva Segovia in those said
islands, has given me certain memorials and accounts of affairs, and
of measures suitable for their improvement, and for the security of
the consciences of the confessors, of the encomenderos and soldiers,
and of other persons, particularly in regard to what affects the
spiritual good of the In