On that account if some of the new
ordinances were to be remade, this would be bettered.
I received some decrees in these last ships, which were despatched in
the year thirty-two, and others of the year thirty-three, concerning
the treasury, which are obeyed and will be carried out as is therein
contained. When these ships set sail--and that has not been done
before as the decrees were received late, and by way of India--I
shall give an account of the condition of these matters.
The viceroy of Nueva Espana has sent me four companies as a
reenforcement, and this camp has six others. I have reorganized five,
so that there are now six companies in this city, each with more
than one hundred soldiers, which is the least number that a company
generally has.
Since the month of August of last year, when I began to govern these
islands, the half-annats [103] have been collected with the care
ordered by your Majesty, in which I cooeperated with the commissary
for that tax. The royal officials and the auditor who was appointed
commissary are doing as they should.
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