th a salary of 300 pesos per year, and one
Indian with 48 pesos; another, with 42 pesos; ten others,
with 30 pesos; one keeper of arquebuses with 42 pesos and
all his rations, which will be mentioned in their place,
amounting in money to 732 pesos 0U732
Two Spanish carpenters and 20 Indians--the Spaniards with
300 pesos each per year, and the 20 Indians at 48 pesos and
their rations--the money amounting to 1560 pesos 1U560
One Spanish stonecutter, with 300 pesos; and twelve Indians
at 24 pesos, amounting yearly to 588 pesos 0U588
Two calkers and one cooper, Spaniards, at 300 pesos each per
year, amounting to 900 pesos 0U900
A hundred Indian pioneers, at 48 pesos each per year and
rations, amounting to 4800 pesos 4U800
An alguazil of the royal exchequer, at 150 pesos per year 0U150
Ten religious, of the Society of Jesus and the Order of
St. Francis, and the vicar, at 100 pesos; and thirty fanegas
of rice each, the money amounting to 1000 pesos 1U000
Commander, captains, pilot, masters, and other officials of
the two galleys, besides rations, have each year in salaries
5643 pesos, 4 tomins 5U643
Four substitutes, [56] who are about the person of the governor
of those islands, at 30 ducados of eleven reals per month each,
amounting each year to 1U980
Each year presents are taken to the king, his son, and the
chiefs, worth 2000 pesos 2U000
The hospitals expend each year in medicines, food, cloth,
and service more than 10000 pesos 10U000
There must be used powder, balls, iron, steel, pikes and
boats for minor service, costing for their manufacture or
construction more than 10000 pesos 10U000
The expenses of the vessels which bring reenforcements; the
galleys which are kept there; the salaries of the captains,
pilots, masters, officers, and sailors; the careening; and
other smaller expenses for their construction and voyages,
amount each year to more than 40000 pesos 40U000
A purveyor, who is present in the province of Pintados,
earns each year 700 pesos of salary; and there are
others--commissioners, a storekeeper, and a s
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