se where the governor appointed Captain
Cerban Gutierrez de Cespedes to the office of alcalde-mayor while
he possessed an encomienda of Indians worth fifteen hundred ducados,
and the fiscal asked that the said captain be not allowed to exercise
the office until the completion of the trial, the Audiencia postponed
its final decision, and meanwhile the said Cerban Gutierrez continued
to exercise the office, and finished his term before the case was
settled. I have thought best to refer this case to you, as I do,
because in similar cases you will take suitable measures to prevent
difficulties of this sort. It is especially necessary to observe and
minutely fulfil the ordinances concerning the distribution of the
profits of the country and the grant of rewards to persons who have
not received them.

I charge and command you to examine the copy of a letter which I send
you with the present, and which was written to me from those islands
on matters concerning the Sangleys of the Parian, and on what ought
to be provided and remedied in the islands. You will inform me of
all matters and advices contained in the said letter. Meanwhile you
will provide and ordain whatever may seem necessary for the spread of
the Christian faith, and for the cessation of the troubles already
mentioned and others which may be expected, anticipating everything
as is most convenient.

I send you, besides, a copy of what has been written to me from those
islands concerning the precautions which should be taken in matters
of war and defense of the land. That letter also gives information
that the governors without any other reason but their own private
aims and interests, are wont to abolish the companies of infantry
and other offices of war, on account of which complaints arise. It
also states that they have been accustomed to appoint captains of the
number in the city of Manila, who are entirely useless, and that we
could dispense with the appointing those captains and granting their
commissions, as well as those of captains-general and masters-of-camp
which the governors have hitherto granted. You will examine all the
references made to the above-mentioned matters, and what pertains
to the garrisons and defense of the forts and fortified towns. You
will take the necessary precautions in these things, in order that
no loss or trouble may result from them; and will not fill the said
offices of captains-general and masters-of-camp--except that, when