Statements of the amount contributed to his Majesty by the natives
of the Philipinas Islands; that which is spent in their spiritual
administration; what the ecclesiastical estate receives from the
king and from the Indians; and the economies which the royal treasury
can practice, and the augmentations which it can receive, in order to
maintain these dominions with respectable forces, without the necessity
of the royal situado which comes annually from Mexico--and with the
advantage that the royal exchequer can in the future make good the
expenditures incurred during the 202 years which have elapsed since
the conquest of the said islands. By Don Francisco Leandro de Viana, a
student in the old college of San Bartholome el Major of the university
of Salamanca, and formerly rector of the said college; graduated as a
licentiate by the chapter of Santa Barvara; a member of the Council
of his Majesty; his fiscal in the royal Audiencia of Manila, and
promoted to the post of alcalde of criminal cases in that of Mexico.