rated or counterfeited.

37. The thorough efforts which are needed are not made to prevent
the natives from becoming vagabonds and idlers; and to make them
cease to be peddlers and traders for gain. They must be induced to
cultivate the soil, make their cloth, and occupy themselves with
their different kinds of work, as they did formerly. Then the land
was more productive and they were better off.

38. It is necessary rigorously to restrict the Chinese from going
about as they now do among these islands for trade and profit, without
any system, robbing the country, enhancing the value of articles,
and imparting many bad habits and sins to the natives. They also
explore the ports and harbor entrances, and reconnoiter the country,
that they may be able to work some injury when occasion offers.

39. It would be very advantageous forcibly to eject all the Sangleys
who are scattered throughout the islands--namely, those who are
protected by the alcaldes-mayor and the religious--because of the money
that they take out of the country, and the injury they cause to it.

40. These Sangleys should not be allowed to have parians in certain
towns of the islands, where there are but few Spaniards. The justices
harbor them there for their own profit, and the harvests that they
gather from them and their ships, as in Manila. This might prove
very harmful and injurious, and renders it necessary that, at the
very least, the ship coming to trade shall dispose of its cargo as
quickly as possible, and return to China with all those who came in it.

41. It is only just that, when the Sangleys arrive with their ships,
they should observe the proclamations issued which prohibit them
from bringing many people. Penalties should be exacted, and when
the Sangleys return they should take as many people as they can,
thus relieving the country from the many here who are an injury to it.

42. We must endeavor to have them sell the merchandise brought by
them from China freely to any person who wishes to buy; and we must
see that no advantage is taken of anyone, either in their ships or on
land, under severe penalties intended to prevent such acts--from which
arise obvious injustice, and the increase of the price of their wares.

43. An order must be given to the Chinese to sail early for these
islands, so that, during the month of May, their goods shall be sold,
and their ships go on the return voyage. This is the best thing, both
for the safet