Remedy for this evil

To command, under penalty of expulsion, that they do not trade, as it

is contrary to law; and, in respect to estates, they ought to sell

them, even though they are the just owners, since such business is

inconsistent with their ministry. It is certain that, by public report,

if they had to show their titles to those lands it would be found that

many, if not all of them, had been usurped from the Indians. On this

account, without doubt, in regard to this point there was much talk

in the time of Governor Arand[i]a. But nothing was gained in favor

of the Indians, from whom, let the fathers allege what they please,

the endowment of land which the law orders cannot be taken.

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