quickly as possible. Although you have been sent in duplicate
the decrees that you carried, they are now being sent again, without
considering that fact, to the officials of Mexico, so that they may,
upon the first opportunity, provide you with the supplies mentioned.

You have done very well in applying the one thousand pesos of income
to the hospital for Spaniards, and the five hundred to that for the
Indians, as I ordered you in your instructions. I charge you that you
aid and protect them to the best of your ability, since the work is
so charitable.

Since you say that the blankets that I ordered sent from Mexico for
the said hospitals are not needed, as you have there all you want,
and at a cheaper price, and that the money spent on them might be
better spent on other indispensable necessities of the said hospitals,
you shall advise the viceroy, Don Luis de Velasco, so that he may
convert the money for them into what you consider most needful.

You advise me that you wished to audit the accounts of certain brothers
of the habit of St. Francis, who have charge of the hospital for the
Indians, but that they refused to show the accounts, and asserted
that I had nothing to do with it; and that, until I should endow that
house and satisfy its needs, I could have nothing to do with it,
nor in the other charitable works of that bishopric. You say that
the bishop had abetted that, and that he had sided with and aided
the brothers. And although you ought, notwithstanding his reply,
to continue your investigations, which have not yet been made, you
shall, as soon as you receive this letter, take possession of the said
hospital, and of any others in the said islands, in my name, as patron
of them--for such I am by right and by apostolic bull. Likewise you
shall call to account all who shall have had charge of the incomes,
alms, and other matters pertaining to them. I am writing to the bishop
not to hinder you in this; and that, if he desire, he may be present
at the said settlement of accounts.

Since the bishop has gone to excess in placing so many fiscals and
officials in that city and in the other towns of that island, and
in arresting and whipping Indians, to the very great prejudice of my
jurisdiction, he certainly must restrain himself. Now and henceforth
you shall see that the said bishop does not meddle or concern himself
with more than pertains to him by right, and that he observe the
regulations imposed by the