those for the galleys (which is
included in gross expense of those vessels), amounts from year
to year to six thousand pieces at three reals apiece, which
makes a total of two thousand two hundred and fifty pesos.
2U250 pesos.
For the other trifling expenses incurred in building each
year, to which, as they are various, no name can be given,
are spent two thousand pesos. 2U000 pesos.
The purchases of timbers and ribs and their carriage to
the port of Cavite and other ports, for the ships made and
repaired, will amount to two thousand two hundred pesos.
2U200 pesos.
Likewise for the food supplies bought annually for the voyage
of the ships to Nueva Espana, and other trifles, are spent
eleven thousand pesos. 11U000 pesos.
The rice purchased yearly, and collected from the tributes,
amounts to fourteen or fifteen thousand pesos for the support
of the people in [government] service, and is given them in
place of board and rations. To each one is given the amount
that he must have according to his work and contract. Six
thousand fanegas of this is given to the orders and hospitals,
which his Majesty has ordered to be given them annually. Of
the above quantity of fifteen thousand pesos, two thirds,
or ten thousand pesos, are not mentioned here; for the other
third is used in the galleys, of whose expense a report is
made later, and in that report enters this third part which
is still to be mentioned 10U000 pesos.
The artillery balls bought annually from Japon amount yearly
to six hundred pesos. U600 pesos.
The lead bought for the musket and arquebus balls amounts on
an average to one thousand five hundred pesos.
1U500 pesos.
The copper used in founding the artillery is computed at one
thousand pesos annually. 1U000 pesos.
The tin and other metals for the mixture amount to another
thousand pesos. 1U000 pesos.
_Salaries and expenses among the ecclesiastics, and in the
churches and doctrinas_ [_i.e., missions_]
Archbishop of Manila, with an annual salary of four thousand
one hundred and twenty-five pesos 4U125 pesos.
Bishop of Cibu, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
1U838 pesos.
Bishop of Cagayan, the same 1U838 pesos.
Bishop of Camarines, the same 1U838 pesos.
The dean of Manila, six hundred pesos
U600 pesos.
The archdeacon, five hundr
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