petty expenses. U800 pesos.

One master powder-maker, with six hundred pesos.
U600 pesos.

In the manufacture of powder, twenty or twenty-five mortars
are used, which are manipulated by slaves of private persons,
who place them there for evil conduct; and nothing but their
board is given them.

Four coopers and one workman--the former with wages of three
hundred pesos apiece, besides their rations of rice; and the
workman, with forty-eight pesos: All together amounting to
one thousand two hundred and forty-eight pesos.
1U248 pesos.

Six calkers, with wages of three hundred pesos apiece,
besides their rations of rice, which amount to one thousand
eight hundred pesos. 1U800 pesos.

At the time of careening and repairing the ships, and for
other extraordinary matters in this trade of the calkers,
some receive daily wages of two pesos and two and one-half
pesos apiece, which will amount to one thousand five hundred
pesos annually. 1U500 pesos.

There are sixty sailors, or two more or less, who are kept
here. As for those who come in vessels from Nueva Espana,
they serve in the port of Cavite, and in the warehouses;
and sail in fragatas used to carry rice, rigging, pitch,
and other articles which are offered and taken to the said
warehouses. They receive wages of one hundred and fifty
pesos, besides the rations of rice, which amount to nine
thousand pesos. 9U000 pesos.

There are also other sailors and other workmen who come in the
ships from Nueva Espana, and take from here a certification
of their services here, by virtue of which they are paid in
Mexico; while nothing more than their rations of rice are
paid them here, which amount to three fanegas of unwinnowed
rice apiece per month, and some additional aid from year to
year, and between the departure of the vessels. The total
will amount to eight thousand pesos.
8U000 pesos.

There are three pilots, who are experienced in the navigation
between these islands and the mainland, for some voyages
that are usually made to the mainland near these islands,
and who receive six hundred pesos apiece, or one thousand
eight hundred pesos. 1U800 pesos.

In the royal warehouses of this city, ten Indians generally
serve from month to month. They receive apiece one peso per
month, and their board, which amounts to one hundred and
twenty pesos. U120 peso