certify it at the order
of the said governor and captain-general, Don Sebastian Hurtado de
Corcuera y Mendoza. Manila, April 15, one thousand six hundred and
thirty-six. Amount 102,596 pesos, 1 tomin, 8 granos.

Juan Bautista de Cubiaga

We, the undersigned notaries, certify that Juan Bautista de Cubiaga,
whose mark and name appear at the end of this certification of eleven
pages, is auditor of accounts and results of the royal estate of the
Filipinas Islands, as he styles himself. To the certifications and
papers of these and other records that he has despatched, touching
the said his office, entire faith and credit has been, and is, given,
in and out of court. In order that such may be obvious, we signed
this in Manila, April thirty, one thousand six hundred and thirty-six.

Alfonso Baeza del Rio, royal notary.
Francisco de la Torre, notary of the royal crown.
Andres Martin del Arroyo, notary of the royal crown.

_Reduction of expenses_

Sire:

In my endeavor to be a good steward of your Majesty's estate, having
noticed and considered the many expenses and the lack of profit that
you encounter in these islands, solely in order to maintain in them
the Catholic religion, I have thought it advisable to reduce some of
the expenses--as your Majesty will please to have examined by means
of the orders for the said reduction, and which your Majesty will
please approve or censure, according as you judge it most for the
good of your service. My only desire is that God will not ask account
from me for doing it badly, and for unjustly causing expense to your
Majesty. Although I desire to render your Majesty so just an account,
I could not fear it so much as the first, if I gave it as many others
of us who serve you do.

I thought it advisable to save the pay of six hundred pesos per year,
which a captain receives for serving [as such] in the company that he
raised in Mexico; and although my officers are careful to station and
retire the guards, and serve as those of the master-of-camp, I see
to it that they do it well, and that they are not derelict in their
duty. I have given the same orders to the governor and sargento-mayor
of the forts of Terrenate, who also have command of two companies;
the governor and sargento-mayor of the island of Hermosa, of two other
companies; the warden of Camboaga [_i.e._, Zamboanga], of another;
and the alcaldes-mayor of Oton, Cibu, Nueva Segovia, and Caraga, who
have a company to