which is generally
given the collectors. For that reason, when the servant receives
the money that the Chinese pay for their licenses, it is weighed,
and if it is under weight, he demands two or three reals more;
but when he delivers that part of it which he chooses to pay into
the treasury, as I have said, he does not deliver it by weight, but
by count, and thus keeps the profit of the two or three reals. That
amounts to about four thousand pesos. It is sometimes even said that
what he delivers into the treasury on the principal account he pays
in warrants bought by the schemes and channels above mentioned. So
many of these things are attributed to his master, the governor,
that I am ashamed to relate them, for I do not believe them--or at
least I suspect that they are exaggerated. For it is even said that
that servant gives false licenses instead of the true ones, which
he distributes to the Chinese at the same price as the good ones,
and keeps the money for them. It is said that the governor has money
taken from the royal treasury secretly at night. Thus do they say,
and attribute things to the governor by so many and so diverse roads,
that one is scandalized on hearing them--both about the royal revenues
and about other particular things in the matter of profit. What I know
for certain is that the governor does not have the accounts audited
annually in January, as your Majesty orders, by the president and two
auditors. On the contrary, the accounts for years before he assumed
the government are so far behind that they have not yet come to
those of his government, although he has been here three years. In
those accounts preceding--although I am one of the two auditors
whom your Majesty orders to audit the accounts together with the
president; and although I say many things about his negligence--I
have not been sufficient, for he is the one who has to take action
therein. I believe that he has not attended to this matter, but rather
has utterly neglected it; for I am persuaded that, in reaching the
accounts of his own term, he has to keep things very private for the
above-mentioned reasons. I do not know whether he fears to have the
accounts made public; and besides that I should be the judge of them,
for he knows that many worlds could not, through God's mercy, move
me one jot from my strict observance of your Majesty's service.

Also the governor tries to violate justice, and to prohibit the
punishment of evildoers