ins, 2 granos.

Three other parish priests and two sacristans, for the towns
of Cavite and La Hermita de Guia, and for the natives in
Manila and those outside its walls, receive a total of seven
hundred pesos U700 pesos.

It appears that there has been excessive expense hitherto in
the building of churches; but at present there is not so much,
because there is not given to any church that is being rebuilt
that part [of the expense] pertaining to his Majesty--and
which his Majesty should have paid--in the encomiendas of
private persons. For the churches in the lands of the royal
crown the amount averages four thousand pesos annually
4U000 pesos.

For the ornaments given to the doctrinas of the encomiendas
apportioned to the royal crown, exclusive of missal-books
and other articles from Nueva Espana, six hundred pesos
U600 pesos.

To the three convents of St. Augustine, Santo Domingo, and
the Society of Jesus, are given medicines according to his
Majesty's decree. This amounts annually to six hundred pesos
U600 pesos.

_Item_: Six hundred Castilian ducados, given to the Manila
cathedral, by decree of his Majesty--five hundred for music
and the verger, and one hundred for the building of the church.
U85 pesos.

_Item_: Four hundred pesos, to be given annually to the said
cathedral, by decree of his Majesty, for six years, for wine,
wax, and other things U400 pesos.

_Item_: Five hundred ducados, given annually by order of Don
Luis Perez Dasmarinas, former governor of these islands, to
the native hospital of this city. This amounts to six hundred
and eighty-seven pesos and four tomins. Further, one thousand
five hundred fanegas of rice, one thousand five hundred fowls,
and a number of coverlets for the sick
U687 pesos, [tomins]

_Item_: To the hospital of Cagayan, three hundred pesos
annually, by order of Doctor Santiago de Vera, former governor
of these islands U300 pesos.

_Extraordinary expenses_

On his Majesty's account, a vessel is annually despatched
to the kingdom of Japon with an embassy and present to the
king. This, with other embassies to various other kings and
lords, and many other trifling matters, will amount to six
thousand pesos annually 6U000 pesos.

Likewise there is another expense of the two salaries paid
at the same time to a governor, auditor, or royal off