[_Marginal note:_ "Certification of the auditor of accounts and
amounts--102 thousand 596 pesos, 1 tomin, 8 granos paid in pay-checks
with the authority of the owners."]
In obedience to the above decree of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera,
governor and captain-general of these Filipinas Islands, and president
of the royal Audiencia herein, I, Juan Bautista de Cubiaga, auditor
of accounts and results of the royal estate of these said islands,
certify that it appears from the original pay-checks which are in my
possession belonging to the general accounts of the royal treasury
of this city of Manila, for the period between years one thousand
six hundred and thirty-two and the end of one thousand six hundred
and thirty-five, that the official judges of this royal estate have
paid from the said royal treasury a number of pay-checks that were
legitimately owing to persons who were serving in the pay of his
Majesty, and for other reasons, to other extraordinary persons, by
virtue of authorities, cessions, and transfers made to them by the
real owners to collect them from the said royal treasury--and who did
collect them--and to satisfy with them certain balances of accounts
and results that persons who received posts in these islands owed to
his Majesty for various reasons. The pay-checks that here appear to
have been paid to such persons by virtue of authorities, cessions,
and transfers made to them by the real owners, are as follows: