The president, governor, and captain-general of these islands
receives an annual salary of eight thousand pesos de minas,
or thirteen thousand two hundred and thirty-five pesos and
two tomins. 13U235 pesos, 2 tomins.
Four auditors and one fiscal receive each two thousand pesos
de minas, which total sixteen thousand five hundred and
forty-nine pesos and six granos. 16U549 pesos, 6 granos.
One chaplain of the royal Audiencia, three hundred pesos.
U300 pesos.
Three royal officials with five hundred and ten thousand
maravedis apiece, which amounts to five thousand six hundred
and twenty-five pesos. 5U625 pesos.
One chief clerk with a salary of three hundred pesos.
U300 pesos.
Another clerk, for military affairs, with a salary of two
hundred pesos. U200 pesos.
Another clerk, for matters of trade, with the same salary.
U200 pesos.
One executioner, with one hundred and fifty pesos.
U150 pesos.
One notary, with two hundred pesos. U200 pesos.
One galley-purser, with one hundred pesos.
U100 pesos.
_Alcaldes-mayor and corregidors_
The alcalde-mayor of Tondo, with a salary of three hundred
pesos. U300 pesos.
Of Bulacan, with another three hundred pesos.
U300 pesos.
Of La Panpanga, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Laguna de Bay, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Calilaya, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Balayan, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Pangasinan, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Ylocos, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Carmarines, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Arevalo, the same. U300 pesos.
Of Cibu, the same. U300 pesos.
Corregidor of Calamianes, with two hundred and fifty pesos.
U250 pesos.
Of Maribeles, with one hundred and fifty pesos.
U150 pesos.
Of Mindoro, one hundred pesos. U100 pesos.
Of Catanduanes, one hundred and fifty pesos.
U150 pesos.
Of Ybalon, two hundred pesos, because it serves also as the
outpost of Capul. U200 pesos.
Of Panay, another two hundred pesos. U200 pesos.
Leyte, one hundred and fifty pesos. U150 pesos.
Butuan, two hundred pesos. U200 pesos.
Alcalde-mayor of Cagayan, three hundred pesos.
U300 pesos.
_Various salaries_
One assayer and appraiser, with four hundred pesos.
U400 pesos.
One navy storekeeper, two hundred pesos.
U200 pesos.
One clerk, for the warehouses of this city, with one hundred
and fifty pesos. U150 pesos.
One shore master, with a salary of six hundred pesos.
U600 pesos.
One clerk, for the warehouses of Cavite, with one hundred
and forty pesos. U140 pesos.
One chief of galley construction, with five hundred pesos.
U500 pesos.
Another carpenter, with two hundred pesos.
U200 pesos.
One hundred and sixty Indian carpenters at one-half real
and their board daily; their wages amount annually to three
thousand six hundred and fifty pesos.
3U650 pesos.
One master blacksmith, with five hundred pesos.
U500 pesos.
The Indian smiths who serve in the smithies for various
wages, now more and now less, which amount to one thousand
one hundred pesos. 1U100 pesos.
The charcoal used in the smithies and in the founding of
artillery will amount to one thousand pesos.
1U000 pesos.
One artillery and bell-founder, with a salary of one thousand
pesos. 1U000 pesos.
In the said founding eight hundred pesos will be spent
yearly in paying the Indians who work at it, and in other
petty expenses. U800 pesos.
One master powder-maker, with six hundred pesos.
U600 pesos.
In the manufacture of powder, twenty or twenty-five mortars
are used, which are manipulated by slaves of private persons,
who place them there for evil conduct; and nothing but their
board is given them.
Four coopers and one workman--the former with wages of three
hundred pesos apiece, besides their rations of rice; and the
workman, with forty-eight pesos: All together amounting to
one thousand two hundred and forty-eight pesos.
1U248 pesos.
Six calkers, with wages of three hundred pesos apiece,
besides their rations of rice, which amount to one thousand
eight hundred pesos. 1U800 pesos.
At the time of careening and repairing the ships, and for
other extraordinary matters in this trade of the calkers,
some receive daily wages of two pesos and two and one-half
pesos apiece, which will amount to one thousand five hundred
pesos annually. 1U500 pesos.
There are sixty sailors, or two more or less, who are kept
here. As for those who come in vessels from Nueva España,
they serve in the port of Cavite, and in the warehouses;
and sail in fragatas used to carry rice, rigging, pitch,
and other articles which are offered and taken to the said
warehouses. They receive wages of one hundred and fifty
pesos, besides the rations of rice, which amount to nine
thousand pesos. 9U000 pesos.
There are also other sailors and other workmen who come in the
ships from Nueva España, and take from here a certification
of their services here, by virtue of which they are paid in
Mexico; while nothing more than their rations of rice are
paid them here, which amount to three fanégas of unwinnowed
rice apiece per month, and some additional aid from year to
year, and between the departure of the vessels. The total
will amount to eight thousand pesos.
8U000 pesos.
There are three pilots, who are experienced in the navigation
between these islands and the mainland, for some voyages
that are usually made to the mainland near these islands,
and who receive six hundred pesos apiece, or one thousand
eight hundred pesos. 1U800 pesos.
In the royal warehouses of this city, ten Indians generally
serve from month to month. They receive apiece one peso per
month, and their board, which amounts to one hundred and
twenty pesos. U120 pesos.
In the fragatas and other vessels of his Majesty which ply
amid these islands eighty Indians are employed from month
to month, each receiving one peso per month and their board,
which amounts to nine hundred and sixty pesos.
U960 pesos.
For the service of the port of Cavite and its vessels, sixty
Indians are generally drafted each month. They are paid six
reals per month and their board, a total of five hundred and
forty pesos. U540 pesos.
To three Indian rope-makers who assist in the rope-factory
at Manila, where the hemp rigging is made, are paid total
annual wages of one hundred and fifty pesos.
U150 pesos
Each month thirty Indians work month by month in this rope
factory, to whom are paid six reals per month and their
rations of rice, a total of two hundred and seventy pesos.
U270 pesos.
_Purchases_
The black rigging and that made from abaca in Balayan for
the ships and galleys will amount to four thousand pesos.
4U000 pesos.
Every year hemp brought from Japon is bought for rigging,
which from year to year will amount to one thousand five
hundred pesos. 1U500 pesos.
One thousand six hundred quintals of pitch, at ten reals per
quintal, are also used annually, which amounts to two thousand
one hundred and twenty-five pesos 2U125 pesos.
The saltpeter purchased for this camp will average from year
to year one thousand eight hundred pesos. Some years it will
amount to more or less. 1U800 pesos.
The bonote [43] purchased to calk the vessels [going to
New Spain?] and other ships will amount to two hundred and
seventy pesos U270 pesos.
Arquebus fuses, one hundred and fifty pesos.
U150 pesos.
The cocoa-oil purchased for the churches where the sacraments
are administered amounts to two hundred and fifty pesos.
U250 pesos.
The fish-oil and galagal for the careening and repairing of
the ships amounts to nine hundred pesos.
U900 pesos.
Six hundred picos of iron, at various prices are used in
addition to that brought by sail from Nueva España, which
will amount to two thousand pesos. 2U000 pesos.
_Item_: Four hundred picos of nails, which, at the least
price, is seven pesos [per pico], amount to two thousand
eight hundred pesos. 2U800 pesos.
The canvas bought annually for the sails of the ships and
other vessels, exclusive of 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 España, 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 fanégas 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 hundred pesos U500 pesos.
The precentor, another five hundred pesos
U500 pesos.
The schoolmaster, another five hundred pesos
U500 pesos.
The treasurer, another five hundred pesos
U500 pesos.
Four canons, with salaries of four hundred pesos apiece,
which amounts to one thousand six hundred pesos
1U600 pesos.
Two racioneros [44] with three hundred pesos apiece, amounting
to six hundred pesos U600 pesos.
Two medio-racioneros, [45] with two hundred pesos apiece
U400 pesos.
One chaplain of the college of Santa Potenciana, with three
hundred pesos U300 pesos.
To the convent of San Agustín in this city, six hundred pesos
and six hundred fanégas of rice, for six religious who are
engaged there in instruction; given by decree of his Majesty
U600 pesos.
To the above convent, seven hundred pesos annually, which sum
is the situados from two encomiendas, given for the building
of the convent, until the fulfilment of three of his Majesty's
decrees--one of which grants ten thousand ducados, another
six thousand, and the third two thousand
U700 pesos.
Each of the two convents of St. Dominic and of the Society of
Jesus are given four hundred pesos and four hundred fanégas
of rice for four religious, which amount to eight hundred pesos
U800 pesos.
And although his Majesty orders the same to be given to the
convent of St. Francis they neither accept nor wish it.
To the convent of Santisimo Nombre de Jesus, in Cibu, are
given annually two hundred pesos and two hundred fanégas of
rice. That convent was the first one founded.
U200 pesos.
In the doctrinas of the encomiendas belonging to his Majesty
in these islands (which were mentioned in the statement of
the incomes), there are fifty-eight religious who administer
instruction therein; and, according to the stipend given to
each one, the total amounts to seven thousand and seventy-one
pesos 7U071 pesos.
To six parish priests and their sacristans, located in the
six Spanish settlements--namely, Manila, Caceres, Segovia,
Arebalo, Villa Fernandina, and Cibu--are given salaries of
fifty thousand maravedís to each priest, and twenty-five
thousand to each sacristan, making a total of one thousand
six hundred and fifty-four pesos, three tomins, and two granos
7U654 pesos, 3 tomins, 2 granos.
Three other parish priests and two sacristans, for the towns
of Cavite and La Hermita de Guia, and for the natives in
Manila and those outside its walls, receive a total of seven
hundred pesos U700 pesos.
It appears that there has been excessive expense hitherto in
the building of churches; but at present there is not so much,
because there is not given to any church that is being rebuilt
that part [of the expense] pertaining to his Majesty--and
which his Majesty should have paid--in the encomiendas of
private persons. For the churches in the lands of the royal
crown the amount averages four thousand pesos annually
4U000 pesos.
For the ornaments given to the doctrinas of the encomiendas
apportioned to the royal crown, exclusive of missal-books
and other articles from Nueva España, six hundred pesos
U600 pesos.
To the three convents of St. Augustine, Santo Domingo, and
the Society of Jesus, are given medicines according to his
Majesty's decree. This amounts annually to six hundred pesos
U600 pesos.
_Item_: Six hundred Castilian ducados, given to the Manila
cathedral, by decree of his Majesty--five hundred for music
and the verger, and one hundred for the building of the church.
U85 pesos.
_Item_: Four hundred pesos, to be given annually to the said
cathedral, by decree of his Majesty, for six years, for wine,
wax, and other things U400 pesos.
_Item_: Five hundred ducados, given annually by order of Don
Luis Perez Dasmariñas, former governor of these islands, to
the native hospital of this city. This amounts to six hundred
and eighty-seven pesos and four tomins. Further, one thousand
five hundred fanégas of rice, one thousand five hundred fowls,
and a number of coverlets for the sick
U687 pesos, [tomins]
_Item_: To the hospital of Cagayan, three hundred pesos
annually, by order of Doctor Santiago de Vera, former governor
of these islands U300 pesos.
_Extraordinary expenses_
On his Majesty's account, a vessel is annually despatched
to the kingdom of Japon with an embassy and present to the
king. This, with other embassies to various other kings and
lords, and many other trifling matters, will amount to six
thousand pesos annually 6U000 pesos.
Likewise there is another expense of the two salaries paid
at the same time to a governor, auditor, or royal official;
for from their departure from España until their arrival here
the salary of each is paid to him, as well as to the official
here, so that two salaries are paid at the same time for one
office. These amount annually to about two thousand pesos
2U000 pesos.
The salaries paid to the agents who collect the tributes of
his Majesty's encomiendas, and the situados of individuals,
in accordance with what each one collects, and the commission
given him, amount to one thousand six hundred pesos
[1U600 pesos]
_Expenses of the soldiers and their officers_
One master-of-camp, with a salary of one thousand six hundred
and fifty-three pesos. 1U653 [pesos]
This camp of Manila has five captains, each receiving a salary
of four hundred and twenty pesos, which amount to two thousand
one hundred pesos. [2U100 pesos]
Five alferezes, with a salary of two hundred and forty pesos
apiece, which amount to one thousand two hundred pesos
1U200 [pesos]
Five sergeants with one hundred and twenty pesos apiece,
which amount to six hundred pesos U600 [pesos]
Five drummers, with seventy-two pesos apiece, which amount
to three hundred and sixty pesos U360 [pesos]