, shall always keep a list ready of all the
monasteries and chief residences [maintained there by his orders]
and of the members [resident in each] that fall in his province,
and of all the religious in the province--noting each one of them by
name, together with a report of his age and qualifications, and the
office or ministry in which each one is occupied. He shall give that
annually to our viceroy, Audiencia, or governor, or the person who
shall have charge of the supreme government in the province, adding to
or removing from the list the religious who shall be superfluous and
those who shall be needed. Our viceroy, Audiencia, or governor, shall
keep those general lists which shall thus be given, for himself, and in
order that he may inform us by report of the religious that there are,
and those of whom there is need of provision, by each fleet sent out.

"The provincials of the orders, each one of them shall make a list of
all the religious who are occupied in teaching the Christian doctrine
to the Indians, and the administration of sacraments, and the offices
of curas in the villages of the chief monasteries. They shall give such
list once a year to our viceroy, Audiencia, or governor, who shall
give it to the diocesan prelate, so that he may know and understand
what persons are occupied in the administration of sacraments and
the office of curas and the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and who are
in charge of the souls for whom he is responsible; and in order that
what is or must be provided may be apparent to him, and from whom he
has to require account of the said souls, and to whom he must commit
what is to be done for the welfare of those souls.

"Whenever the provincials have to provide any religious for instruction
or for the administration of sacraments, or remove any who shall
have been appointed, they shall give notice thereof to our viceroy,
president, Audiencia, or governor who shall exercise the supreme
government of the province, and to the prelate; and they shall not
remove any one who shall have been appointed, until another shall
have been appointed in his place, observing the above order.

"We desire, in the presentations and appointments of all the prelacies,
dignidades, and ecclesiastical offices and benefices, that those
most deserving, and who shall have been engaged longer and to better
profit in the conversion of the Indians, and in instructing them
in the Christian doctrine, and in the admi