g. To the Marques de Cerralvo, my relative, member of my Council
of War, my viceroy, governor, and captain-general of those provinces of
Nueva Espana, and president of my royal treasury therein; or the person
or persons to whose charge the government of them may be entrusted: the
king my sovereign and father (whom may holy paradise keep!) ordered to
be issued, and did issue, a decree (which is found at folio 163 verso,
of this same volume, number 144). [6] And now Don Juan Grau Monfalcon,
procurator-general of the city of Manila of the Filipinas Islands,
has related to me that, as is well known, there is great need of
sailors and seamen in the navigation of the said Filipinas Islands,
and that, for the islands to obtain these men it is advisable that good
treatment and [an opportunity for] passage be given to them in the
seaports; and that they be granted some means of gain, so that they
might, by reason of that self-interest, be encouraged and induced to
serve in the voyages--shielding them from the annoyances inflicted
upon them by the officials at the said ports. He has petitioned me
that I be pleased so to order, and that their chests be not opened;
that permission be granted them so that each seaman may carry up to
seven thousand pesos of investments in that voyage, in which is to be
included the quantity which they have hitherto been permitted to carry;
and that the castellan and my other employees at the port of Acapulco
shall cause them neither vexations nor injuries. The matter having
been examined in my royal Council of the Yndias, I have considered
it fitting to issue the present, by which I order you to observe
and fulfil, and to cause to be observed and fulfilled, the decree
herein incorporated, _in toto_ and exactly as is therein contained,
and that you do not violate it or pass beyond its tenor and form. [7]
In its fulfilment, you shall give what orders may be necessary, so
that care may be taken of those men at the port of Acapulco and so
that all proper facilities and despatch may be accorded them. Madrid,
September 30, 1633.

_I the King_

By order of the king our sovereign:
_Don Francisco Ruiz de Contreras_

The King. To my governor and captain-general of the Filipinas
islands, and president of my royal Audiencia therein. Don Juan Grau
y Monfalcon, procurator-general of that city, has informed me that I
ordered, by a decree of May 23, 1620, that the cargo of the ships be
distributed to the inhab