ncia, you will not allow any
such appointment. You will nominate three from deserving men of those
islands, who in your estimation possess the necessary qualifications
for the office, and will send me their names, in order that I may
elect the one who seems best to me. In the meantime you will make
arrangements for the suitable performance of the duties of that office,
and so that no difficulties will arise. With this I shall order to
be sent you copies of two clauses of a letter, in which are proposed
two expedients which may benefit my exchequer in recompense for the
expenses which are incurred by it in those islands. One of these
relates to the cloves which could be obtained from the Malucas,
carrying thither the produce of the island of Panay in exchange;
and then bringing the said cloves to Nueva Espana on my account. The
other proposal suggests that a monopoly be established in the raw
silk brought from China--allowing each ship to carry only a certain
quantity of it, and that to be carried to Nueva Espana on my account
and not for any other, as you will understand more fully from the said
clauses of a letter, which I have thought best to send you. Thus after
you have discussed the matter with my royal Audiencia, and heard the
opinion of my royal officials and of such persons of experience and
intelligence as you think best, you can ascertain what can be done
in the matter, the benefit and advantage which may result from the
said measures, and the difficulty or facility which they offer. You
will send me a detailed account of all, with your opinion.

I have understood that, by way of remedy for the illegal acts committed
by the magistrates, and the wrongs which the Indians suffer, it would
be of great importance to have the official inspection of affairs in
those islands--which according to the ordinances constituting the
Audiencia there, and to my orders, the auditors ought to make in
turn. The latter have refused to do so, on acount of the expenses
and danger which they incur. Since it is necessary that the said
inspection be made, I charge and command you to cause it to be made
in the land which has been pacified, and where there is no obstacle;
and that in this inspection the auditor who is selected in turn,
conformably to the said ordinances, be accompanied by no soldiers
or other people who might prove to be burdensome or injurious to the
Indians. You will endeavor to make the said inspection bring about the