all admit to the said agreement, under the above obligations. Having
made the contract, you shall give them the necessary despatches,
so that they may enjoy these for the third generation; and these
shall be thus continued to them with the repartimientos which they
possess, or shall be continued to those who shall duly succeed to
them, according to the law of succession. They shall be obliged to
have obtained within four years my confirmation of the same. Those
who shall come after the said year has expired you shall in no case
admit. With those with whom you shall make a contract, you shall try
to regulate the value of the repartimientos and encomiendas, with the
advice of the fiscal of that Audiencia and the royal officials of their
district, enacting for that purpose the measures that you shall deem
advisable; paying heed to the consolidations which must be made of
the pensions that they pay at present. With those who shall possess
their repartimientos and encomiendas without any stipulation for the
consolidation, you shall contract in the same manner and form, with
the obligation to come to obtain the confirmation. You shall proceed
in both cases with the like care that the business be regulated and
transacted so that my royal treasury be paid, exactly and promptly,
what belongs to it because of this. The sum resulting from this you
shall send me at the first opportunity in a separate fund, and shall
not put it with the rest of my revenues--sending it directed to my
president and official judges of the House of Trade at Sevilla. You
shall make a special report of what proceeds from each contract, and
of those who wish to make contracts in regard to the encomiendas which
they possess in those kingdoms; and those who enjoy those encomiendas
while living in these kingdoms shall come to make these contracts
in the said my Council of the Indias, where they will be admitted
without any time limit being set. Madrid, February 1, 1636.

_I the King_

By order of the king our sovereign:

_Don Gabriel de Ocana y Alarcon_

_Idem_, to the [governor] of Yucatan, Philipinas, and Venezuela.

MILITARY SERVICES OF FILIPINOS

Sire:

Don Juan Grau y Monfalcon, procurator-general of the Philipinas
Islands, desirous of your Majesty's service and the welfare and
conservation of those islands, and that the Indians who are under
your Majesty's protection and pay you homage be preserved therein,
represents that the India