Such persons should come
from Madrid, and the persons who have to govern should live here.

I petition your Majesty to be pleased to have this matter examined
in your royal Council, for it is very important for your service. I
discharge my conscience of what is in my care, by advising your Majesty
of it. May our Lord preserve your Catholic person, as is necessary
to Christendom. Manila, the last of June, one thousand six hundred
and thirty-six. Your vassal kisses the feet of your Majesty.

Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera

Manila, April 11, 1636. Juan Bautista de Cubiaga, auditor of accounts
and results [_resultas_] of these islands, in whose possession are
the pay-checks of the general accounts of the royal treasury, shall
certify at the foot of this decree the sum of pesos that have been
paid from the royal treasury from the first of July, six hundred
and thirty-five, to the last of June, six hundred and thirty-six,
to various persons for pay-checks that the royal treasury owes them
as pay for serving your Majesty, and for other reasons, by virtue of
my decrees regarding the one-third, the owners voluntarily commuting
to his Majesty the other two-thirds, in consideration of the needs
and debt of the royal estate in these said islands. The certification
shall be set forth in detail with the greatest clearness, together with
the amount of the two-thirds of which a gift is made to his Majesty.

Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
Francisco de Ortega

In fulfilment of the above decree of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera
y Mendoza, governor and captain-general of these Filipinas Islands,
and president of the royal Audiencia herein, I, Juan Bautista de
Cubiaga, auditor of accounts and results of the royal treasury in the
islands, certify that among the original pay-checks for credits on
the general accounts of the royal treasury for the year one thousand
six hundred and thirty-five, when the treasury was in charge of the
royal official judges--namely, the accountant, Martin Ruiz de Salazar;
the factor, Ynigo de Villarreal; and the treasurer, Don Baltasar
Ruiz de Escalona--there appear those which will be stated here below,
as having been paid to various persons to whom the royal estate owed
them, as pay and daily wages, for services performed for his Majesty
in various posts of sea, war, etc. [These were paid] up to one-third
of their face value, by virtue of the decrees of the said governor--the
other two-thirds having