the auditors and the said alcalde-in-ordinary. In this
way the salary of the alcalde-mayor of Tondo will be saved, which is
now paid from the royal treasury; and this city will consider it as a
singular grace and favor. So likewise will the Indians, for they will
be better treated and less annoyed by this form of government; because
the man who is appointed to the said alcaldia must make his living from
it, and on that account must do things which are illegal--but, as he
is usually a retainer of the governor, the latter shields him in the
matter. This will cease with the alcaldes-in-ordinary, for they perform
their duties without any selfish considerations, being always men of
honor and rich, who do not seek the offices through greed for money.

In the province of Zubu there used to be only one alcalde-mayor;
but about two years ago another was added in the islands of Leyte,
Camar, and Babao, which are close to Zubu. It was done to the great
displeasure of the citizens of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, which was
the first city founded and settled in these islands; for the said
three islands were under the jurisdiction of the alcalde-mayor
resident in the said city, and with the other one they would be
greatly annoyed and molested, since most of the citizens who reside
in the said city are encomenderos in the said islands of Leyte,
Camar, and Babao. The alcalde-mayor of these islands takes them from
the said city and enters suits against them. He takes them to the
said islands as prisoners; and, as they have their property there,
and must needs go there every year for the collection of tributes
from their encomiendas, they cannot refuse to go; and thus the said
alcalde-mayor molests them as encomenderos, and he of Cubu, on the
other hand, as citizens. As this is so, if your Majesty be pleased,
the said alcalde-mayor of the said three islands might be removed,
and they put under the jurisdiction of the said island of Cubu,
whose alcalde-mayor could very well serve all of them.

On the river of Butuan, which is on the confines of this island of
Zubu and close to the island of Mindanao, is another corregidor, with
a salary of two hundred pesos. In the island of Calamianes is another
corregidor, with the ordinary salary. In the district of Oton is an
alcalde-mayor, with a salary of three hundred pesos. In Panay is a
corregidor, with two hundred pesos salary. All the alcaldes-mayor
and corregidors besides those mentioned should