ll-intentioned persons desire, to discontinue the
pacification and exploration, it is advisable to impose a large fine
on each and all who do not observe it, with the injunction that his
Majesty will also consider such conduct as displeasing to himself.

2. _Item_: That all the officers and soldiers engaged in this conquest,
either on pay or as volunteers, who had while in Manila any right to
receive a share in the lading, [56] shall retain and preserve that
right while engaged in the said conquest. To the volunteers--whether
married or single, without distinction--shall be given [space therein]
to him who has no capital, at least one _pieza_; and to him who has
capital, in proportion to that capital, and to his length of residence
here. Thus many may be induced by this _pieza_ to take service,
who otherwise would not serve, but would be wandering about idly,
and gambling, to the corruption of the community.

3. _Item_: Inasmuch as the envy of two or three men, who try, by means
of trickery, to prevent and thwart any affair or action of another, is
very usual and well known in this country; and it is to be presumed of
these men that they will not, even if they can, pardon this conquest;
and as they say slyly that the share of the citizens in the cargo
may be so large that there is no one who can buy any of the tonnage,
or use other artful means, or say that at least the tonnage must be
sold cheaply, at less than fifty pesos a share--in order that, as the
proceeds therefrom will be slight, the conquest and exploration might
not be made: to correct the above, it is necessary to ordain that no
one, under heavy penalties, can sell the piezas granted to him until
the eighty toneladas are sold--which are given them, in accordance
with the royal decrees, not to be sold, but for export purposes. We
might make public by proclamations, public criers, or edicts, the
provisions regarding this matter, and order the officials who regulate
the cargo not to lade any pieza without certification by the receiver
of the freight, of what one shall have sold, given, or transferred
to another in any way, under penalty of losing his office as manager
of the cargo, and one hundred pesos' fine for each pieza thus laded.

4. _Item_: In order that volunteers may be induced to serve on this
occasion, a moderate ration of rice and wine shall be given them
from that bought with the money received for the tonnage. This is
a matter of slight importan