I shall write to the viceroy about this matter, you will make the
necessary efforts that the said religious may go there; for this will
be of great importance in fully establishing the said monastery and in
completing the training of the nuns who have been sheltered there. You
will aid and heartily favor this work as being so desirable for the
service of God.

The said Don Francisco writes me that when the king my lord (may
he rest in glory) charged the governors your predecessors to found
a seminary where the children of the native chiefs of these islands
could be taught and receive instruction in the ways of civilization,
Don Luis Perez Dasmarinas, governor of the islands, made a contract
with the religious of the Society of Jesus for the foundation of the
said seminary, and assigned to it a perpetual income of a thousand
pesos yearly. To begin the work, he immediately gave them six hundred
pesos and for the income he set aside a fund in the treasury of the
fourths; but as the income was uncertain, on account of the needy
circumstances of the said treasury, and the amount of money given to
commence the work was small, and it was of great importance that the
work be begun, the said Don Francisco entreated me to be responsible
for this income, and thus make it perpetual. He also asked me to
give him permission to assign the said seminary a repartimiento of a
thousand Indians, the first one that should be vacant. Since I desire
to receive a report from you on the whole matter, I command you to
send me one, notifying me, with your opinion, of any other means,
besides the Indians, by which aid can be given to the said seminary,
and in what condition its endowment is.

Don Francisco Tello informs me that in the Parian of the Sangleys of
Manila--which was founded only for some of them to live in, and those
to be workmen, in such number as to be sufficient for the service of
the commonwealth--houses have been gradually built; and that by this
time there are more than three hundred of them, and three thousand
Sangleys who do nothing but eat up the provisions and enhance the
price of commodities in the land. He adds that this could be remedied
only by abolishing the Parian altogether, and letting the Sangleys
sell their merchandise in the streets or in their ships as they
were accustomed to do when there was no Parian. This would bring the
commonwealth a gain of more than one hundred thousand pesos a year,
and would give mor