What should be deducted from the aforesaid 62,770 pesos, 2 tomins,
as necessary expenses of the provinces of these islands.
1. The three per cent which his Majesty pays to the alcaldes-mayor
for the collection of the tributes, calculated on the two hundred
and fifty thousand pesos, amounts to the sum of seven thousand,
five hundred pesos.
2. The pay of alcaldes, corregidors, and magistrates in the provinces
of these islands amounts to the sum of seven thousand, five hundred
pesos.
3. As in all the provinces the tribute is regularly paid half in money
and half in kind, it is necessary to transport the said commodities
from the villages to the capital; this expense costs the royal
treasury, according to a fair estimate, the sum of six thousand pesos.
4. For one thousand, two hundred and ninety-eight men employed in
the fortified posts the royal treasury spends, according to the pay
[-rolls] of their respective garrisons, the sum of twenty-two thousand,
four hundred and ninety-three pesos, two reals.
5. For fifteen thousand, five hundred and ten rations of unhulled
rice, of twenty-four gantas each, estimated at the prices of two,
four, and six reals, in proportion to the scarcity or the abundance of
[the supplies in] the said fortified posts, the royal treasury spends
seven thousand, one hundred and seventy-four pesos, six tomins.
6. For one thousand and forty-five uniforms for the said garrisons,
estimated at the low price of three pesos each, the royal treasury
spends three thousand, one hundred and thirty-five pesos.
7. For the consumption of balls, gunpowder, muskets, cannon, etc.,
estimated moderately and at the lowest price, there is an expense of
five thousand, five hundred pesos.
These indispensable expenses amount to the sum of fifty-nine thousand,
three hundred and three pesos, which, deducted from the sixty-two
thousand, seven hundred and seventy pesos, two tomins, of the net
balance contained in the summary of statement ii, leaves only three
thousand, four hundred and sixty-seven pesos, two tomins, in favor
of the royal treasury.