nasmuch as you report that there are certain Sangley shops in the
Parian, whose rent is given to their governor; and that it is not
advisable that those Sangleys remain there, because they are not
Christians; but that some settlement outside the city should be
assigned them, and the rent for their shops applied to that city as
public property, while another kind of remuneration be given to the
said judge of the Sangleys: I refer to you everything pertaining to
this matter, so that, after consulting with the licentiate Rojas and
the municipal government of that city, you may provide for it in such
manner that the said Sangleys receive no injury or dissatisfaction.

Under the present cover I enclose to you a second decree, ordering that
my officials of those islands should pay their wages to the sailors,
carpenters, blacksmiths, and other workmen; and that, if my treasury
there should prove insufficient for this, they send to Nueba Spana
for the deficit. Under other covers I am writing to the viceroy to
have this carefully obeyed.

Notwithstanding that the provision mentioned in your instructions,
ordering that none but inhabitants of those islands engage in trade,
was not delivered or afterward sent to you, you shall observe the
contents of that section of the said instructions which treats of this.

The effort which you report having made with the city, that a convent
of nuns be founded in the church of Sant Andres (the erection of
which has begun), which is discussed in section twenty-seven of your
instructions, is well, and you shall continue it.

You will know my wishes in regard to the sale of the offices from
the despatches that have been sent to you, and you shall observe them.

The bulls of crusades and composition, which you say might be applied
in those islands, were sent to you; and my royal Council of the
Crusade is writing in regard to it.

In remunerating and providing for the deserving, you shall continue
to observe the instructions and orders given you.

In regard to what you say about the entrances and new discoveries, and
their great necessity in order that the soldiers may be maintained,
and their extreme poverty alleviated, this is not the principal
end that must be observed, but that of the service of God, and the
welfare of the Indians. Inasmuch as you have the matter in hand, you
shall consider what will be most advisable, and you shall accordingly
ordain in it what you consider fitting, in