the royal
exchequer, and the difficulties which are mentioned in the clause
result.

29th. With regard to clause 29, the deeds of those who go on these
expeditions are so contrary to the orders given in this clause that
it would appear that they are sent to rob, rather than to pacify.

30th. Clause 30 is the least respected of all those contained in this
book of ordinances, as was said, and there is most necessity for its
observance. It is, moreover, certain that all the other ordinances
are regulated by what is here commanded.

32nd. To clause 32, which treats of new settlements, no more attention
is paid than if it had not been written. For no settlement is either
made or contemplated in this island; no Spanish town has any pasture
for cattle, or land for cultivation, although that would be a great
convenience; and those who wish to undertake anything of the sort--for
there are two or three such--are granted no favor when this matter
is discussed; nor is there any one who remembers the law.

33rd. No attention is paid to clause 33, nor is the pacification of
the natives conducted on any orderly plan--except that here and there
some men are sent to make the Indians tributary, without attention to
securing their pacification or settlement. Some attention was, however,
given to this in the expedition which was just made to Cagayan.

36th. We all know well that the principal aim of your Majesty is that
expressed in clause 36, but this is not the aim of those who govern;
accordingly, they do little for the conversion of the Indians, but
much for their own profit.

138th. The part of clause 138 which is observed, for good or bad,
is to subjugate the Indians and compel them to pay tribute; beyond
this there is neither care nor thought.

139th. For the like reason, clause 139 is not observed, nor is there
thought of it.

141st. Of what is ordered in clause 141 nothing is observed; for they
care no more for rendering justice to the Indians than if these were
beasts who lack reason.

144th. The part of clause 144 most important for observance was
that beginning "the country being pacified" [_illegible in original
MS._]; it was, indeed, the most necessary for observance. But
in order to relate the harm that follows from not observing it,
there should be another man who knows better how to say it than I
do. This law or clause contains two parts. In the first is stated the
obligation of the governor in allotting the In