He deserves honor from
your Majesty, and aid, in order that he may become more prosperous
and not less. [_In the margin_: "Consult the memorial."]
Since we are so loyal vassals and chaplains of your Majesty, it grieves
us and rends our soul to see the damage done to your Majesty's royal
treasury, because there are not any faithful officials to execute the
so pious and excellent order that was decreed and determined by the
royal decrees of your Majesty, and by the glorious progenitors of your
Majesty; especially in regard to the money that passes annually from
Nueva Espana to these islands. We inform your Majesty that, besides
the permission of the four hundred thousand pesos that your Majesty has
given for the inhabitants of this city, it is certain that two millions
are brought. That sum is brought from Nueva Espana by companies and
agents who call themselves inhabitants of Mexico; and your judges
and officials [there] allow them to pass, and dis-simulate because
of the great profit that falls to them in Acapulco. The efforts are
not made in this city either that could be made by those who ought
to make them.
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