ke a resolution in this matter, it is advisable that
the governor, the Audiencia, and the archbishop of the said islands
report on the condition of the work on the said residence, what is
yet to be built, how much it will cost, and whether the said Society
of Jesus has funds with which to build it.

Licentiate Don Lorenzo Ramirez de Prado, Juan Prado, Juan de Solorzano,
and Don Juan de Palafox think that, if your Majesty be so pleased,
you can do them the favor of continuing to the said residence the
sum as above stated which was given them (of one thousand ducados in
each year, for ten years) for two years more--one thousand ducados in
each of them to be paid from the said tributes of unassigned Indians,
so that they may continue the said work. This should be with the
qualification that the governor of the said islands see whether there
is any other kind of property from which to pay those two thousand
ducados, so that it may not be taken from the treasury of your Majesty,
or from the said encomiendas of Indians--in order that the latter
may remain free, with which to reward the soldiers who serve your
Majesty in those districts with great toil and danger. Those two
years of extension shall run from the day on which the ten years of
the said grant are concluded, and in each one of those two years they
shall not enjoy more than one thousand ducados. Will your Majesty
order what is your royal pleasure. Madrid, [_blank_] of [_blank_],
six hundred and thirty-five.

[The king, having seen the above opinions of his Council, despatched
a decree to the president and auditors of the Manila Audiencia,
which recites in identical terms throughout the matter preceding the
opinion in the first paragraph above, and then continues:]

The matter having been examined in my royal Council of the Yndias,
together with the letter which you wrote me on July twenty-nine, six
hundred and thirty, and they having conferred with me in respect to
the many years during which I made the said concession to the said
residence, and our ignorance at present of what had been done with
that money, or into what it has been converted, and what still lacks
to be built; and as it is in tributes of unassigned Indians, which are
to be used as a reward for the soldiers who serve me in those islands
with so great toil and danger, without there being any other thing with
which to reward them: I command you, in order that our decision in this
matter may be made