_. The chief office was given another clerk
at the same and aforesaid pay 150 p. 0 0

The powder that has been wasted in Manila and in the
outside presidios in firing salutes to the persons who
govern the provinces, and on festal days, as appears
by the different accounts of the administration of the
royal estate, is considerable; and inasmuch as this
cannot be regulated with certainty, it is diminished
by eight hundred pesos per year, for according to
the revision, powder must not be so used in the future
800 p. 0 0

The standard-bearers of all the companies of these
islands and the Molucas (who, as we have said above,
are twenty-four in number) received ninety-six pesos
apiece per year. According to the revision, they have
been cut down by the half. The half that is saved
amounts to one thousand one hundred and fifty-two pesos
1,152 p. 0 0

Of five standard-bearers of five infantry companies
of the Pampango nation (who are in Terrenate, the
island of Hermosa, Cagayan, and Camboanga) those of
Terrenate received seventy-two pesos apiece per year;
and the others, forty-eight apiece. Now they receive
the half of those sums, and one hundred and forty-four
pesos are saved 144 p. 0 0

Of the five shieldbearers of the said five companies,
two received seventy-two pesos apiece, and the
others forty-eight. They have all been abolished,
and the amount saved in this is two hundred and
eighty-eight pesos 288 p. 0 0

_Increase_. The clerk of the royal magazines of
Cavite received one hundred and forty pesos per year,
and a ration of forty-eight fanegas of rice in the
husk. Now he receives one hundred and fifty pesos,
but the ration has been taken away
10 p. 0 0

There are about one hundred artillerymen--more
rather than less--in this city of Manila, the fort
of Santiago, the port of Cavite, the fort of Oton,
Cagayan, the island of Hermosa, Cibu, Caraga,
Camboanga, and the Malucas Islands. Each of them
formerly received two hundred pesos per year. The
revision now gives them one hundred and seventy pesos,
and each one has been decreased by thirty pesos. The
saving in this item amounts to three thousand pesos
3,000 p. 0 0

In the reduction of the additional pay