nsideration, those who are in
authority show the people respect, courtesy, and affability.

78. Those in authority must avoid having a great following of servants
and retainers; and those that they do have they must pay and recompense
from their own pockets, and must not bestow on them the offices or
profits of the country. This is a very unjust proceeding, as there is
not sufficient even for those who serve, because of the small extent
of this country.

79. Those in authority must refuse to allow such servants and friends
to trade and make contracts, and to buy goods at wholesale and to
embark in commercial enterprises; because they exercise much coercion
and inflict many wrongs--spreading the report that it is on behalf
of those in authority. No one, therefore, dares to institute a suit
against them.

80. The said relations, servants, and friends of those in authority
ought not to be permitted to become regidors or city officials;
for besides being incapable of filling such positions, and having no
experience in the ways of this country, they only serve to deprive
the others who fill these offices of freedom of action, so that no
necessary measures can be enacted in their cabildos, if it is at all
against the will of those in authority.

81. His Majesty's orders, contained in many decrees, to the effect that
none but inhabitants of these islands should engage in trade here, must
be put into rigid execution, as well as all else in them concerning
the inhabitants, for this is the only salvation for the country.

82. In regard to the weight and cargo in the vessels sailing to Nueva
Espana, it is essential that those in authority protect the citizens,
since there is but one August and one harvest. They should strive to
allow the citizens to pursue their occupations freely and leisurely,
and to have the cargo loaded by those only who can justly do so.

83. Just as it is requisite to use restraint sometimes, in order to
prevent the troops in this land from going on some enterprises, so
likewise expeditions and pacifications must be arranged as a means of
employing them; for as idlers they gain nothing, nor does the country
receive any profit. At other times it is necessary to allow some to
return to Espana, for thus others will lose their fear of coming to
this country.

84. The hospitals, especially that for the Spaniards, ought to be
greatly favored, as they are the asylums for all the needy. The same
is true of