alary, additional expenses, amounting
to a hundred pesos; because such alcaldes-mayor are captains of the
citizens, in the manner explained in the clause before this. Likewise
some of the said alcaldes-mayor have Spanish alguazils, although not
with salaries, and although there are royal decrees directing the
governor to check this, and not allow offices to increase. It would
be fitting for your Majesty to command, if you so please, that these
alcaldes-mayor be reduced to the following:

In the province of Laguna, one alcalde-mayor with three hundred
pesos of salary, which is the ordinary amount. On the opposite coast
of Mauban, one corregidor; this is the district next to the said
Laguna. He should have two hundred pesos of salary. In the province
of Camarines, another alcalde-mayor, with the same salary of three
hundred pesos. Another alcalde-mayor, who has recently been appointed
in the said province for the island of Catanduanes, should be removed;
and the said alcalde-mayor of Camarines should care for that, as
he used to do. In the province of Cagayan, another alcalde-mayor,
with the same salary. In that of Ylocos, another alcalde-mayor, with
the same salary. In Pangasinan, another alcalde-mayor, with the said
salary. In the province of Panpanga, another alcalde-mayor, with the
proper salary, who should administer the jurisdiction of the district
of Bulacan, which borders upon it; all this was formerly under one
alcalde. The one who was lately added in Bulacan should be removed.

In the village of Tondo and the bay of this city of Manila (all of
which is the suburbs and outskirts of the city), the governors keep
another alcalde-mayor and lieutenant, although the whole of it is
within the five leagues which, by your Majesty's grace, this city
of Manila has as a jurisdiction--whose alcaldes-in-ordinary used to
administer justice in all the districts of the said alcaldia-mayor
of Tondo. Now they have no more than within the walls of the city,
although they are vested with authority and can make arrests
outside. It would be well, if such be your Majesty's pleasure, to
discontinue this alcaldia-mayor of Tondo, and let it be served by
the two alcaldes-in-ordinary from this city of Manila, each one six
months of the year, while the other one is present in this city. In
this way, with the provincial judge, there will be quite sufficient
people to administer justice in the civil cases; and in the criminal
cases there are