Accordingly, having seen this so great loss, both to
your Majesty and to the inhabitants of this city, in assemblies of
the orders that the reverend bishop, governor of this archbishopric,
called on petition of the city, censures were issued, ordering no
one to employ the money of the inhabitants of Nueva Espana or Piru,
thinking that that would be an efficient remedy. But experience has
demonstrated that it has been of no effect, for all have employed that
money and no one has been denounced. This needs, a stringent remedy,
and there is no other except to carry out fittingly what was ordered by
your Majesty, by appointing trustworthy officials of Christian spirit
and well-known zeal for your Majesty's service. [_In the margin_:
"Let them be advised of what decision was made in this."]
One of the greatest services that the cabildos and corporations can
perform for your Majesty is to advise, inform, and report concerning
the deserving persons who attend to your Majesty's service. For, as the
matter passes before so many eyes, they cannot do else than to write
with great consideration and exactness of truth.
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