ered that the accounts be rendered, and when
they are settled I shall inform your Majesty of their substance.

5. _That, in accordance with a royal decree, inspection has been made
of the great church, and it has been found very poor in ornaments;
and that two prebends and two half-prebends have been erected._

In accordance with a royal decree of your Majesty, directed to the
archbishop and myself, your Majesty directed us to make a visitation of
the church, inspect the ornaments which it has, and give our opinion
regarding the dignities and prebendaries which it would be expedient
to have there, and with what stipend. The said visitation was made,
and we found the church very poor in ornaments; and your Majesty is
informed that for the time being it would be sufficiently supplied with
two prebends and two half-prebends, which we established--the prebends
with a stipend of two hundred pesos per year, and the half-prebends
with a hundred and fifty. I await your Majesty's approval.

6. _That the hospitals are in good condition, and are being helped
with alms and grants; and there has been incorporated, in that for the
Spaniards, the Confraternity of La Misericordia; and that possession
has been taken of that for the natives and the accounts audited,
a sworn statement of which goes with this._

Your Majesty orders me, by a clause in your royal instructions,
to provide carefully for the hospitals. In fulfilment of this I
have inspected them, and have ordered the auditors to do the same
in their turn. They are in very good condition, each one having two
apartments of its building finished in stone, with its work-room,
stewards, nurses, and two Franciscan religious for each, who live
in the hospital. At the royal hospital for the Spaniards I have
incorporated the Confraternity of La Misericordia, which includes
the richest people of this country. It has more than a thousand eight
hundred and sixty pesos of income, and I am adding five hundred more
for eight years, making in all two thousand three hundred and sixty,
besides which they have a farm for raising cattle. The accounts of
these funds are kept, for the superintendent, by him who enters in his
place each year. The royal hospital for the Indians has five hundred
pesos of income, two hundred pieces of cloth from Ylocos, one thousand
five hundred fanegas of rice in the hull, one thousand five hundred
fowls (which your Majesty presents to them), and a farm for breeding