nd in Terrenate, 600. There can be no security without them,
and although some reenforcements are sent from Nueva Espana, as these
are so few those needs are not remedied. It is also necessary that the
ships that sail from Acapulco to the said islands leave at the latest
by the twenty-fifth of March, because of the troubles that result
if the contrary be done. He petitioned me to order you to make the
reenforcements to the fullest extent possible, and to send annually at
least four hundred soldiers, eight hundred and fifty sailors and the
artillerymen that you can send, since the conservation of the islands
depends on them. The matter having been examined in my Council of
War of the Yndias, I have considered it fitting to give the present,
by which I charge and order you to fulfil in both matters the commands
of my decrees in this regard. Madrid, March 10, 1634.

_I the King_

By order of his Majesty:
_Don Gabriel de Ocana y Alarcon_

The King. To Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, knight of the Order of
Alcantara, my governor and captain-general of the Filipinas Islands,
and president of my royal Audiencia resident therein, or the person
or persons in whose charge their government may be: Don Juan Grau y
Monfalcon, procurator-general of that city, has informed me that that
said city has been granted, for its fortification, the proceeds of
the income from the monopoly on playing-cards and other articles, and
that the money that has been received from those sources was always
paid into the fortification fund; but that, in violation of that,
Don Juan Nino de Tabora, my former governor of those islands, ordered
that the said sums be placed in my royal treasury, as was done. On
that account, the money that is so necessary for the different works,
the repairs, and fortifications that arise daily, is lacking. He says
that the city having petitioned the governor to have the sums that
belonged to the said fund returned, he refused to comply; but on the
contrary ordered that the city furnish, from its communal property,
all that was thus placed in my royal treasury. He petitioned me to
be pleased to have my royal decree issued ordering that no room be
given for such innovation, that the city and its council might spend
and distribute their communal funds freely, as they have always done,
since that pertains to the city; and that the kinds of income that
have been customary in the past be placed therein and in no other
fund