I, The King

By order of his Majesty: 

Antonio de Eraso

Aranjuez, April 24, 1584.

Annual Income of the Royal Exchequer in the Philippines

Report of the annual income from tributes and other sources of profit appertaining to his Majesty in these islands of the West, and the ordinary expenses therein.

The tributes from the villages belonging to the royal crown amount in one year to twenty-two thousand pesos of eight reals each XXII U. [3] pesos

Dues from tithes and assays of gold, four
thousand pesos IIII U. pesos

From import duties on merchandise which comes from Nueva Espana and China, six thousand pesos VI U. pesos

Fines accruing to the exchequer, one
thousand pesos I U. pesos

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XXXIII U. pesos

Salaries and ordinary expenses

The yearly salaries of the president, auditors, and fiscal of the royal Audiencia amount to sixteen thousand five hundred and forty-four pesos of the said gold XVI U. DXL[IIII] pesos

The salaries of two royal proprietary officials, and of another who serves to fill a vacancy, four thousand six hundred and eighty-seven pesos and four tomins IV U. DCLXXXV[II] pesos

Gratuities to the religious orders,
three thousand pesos III U. pesos

Collection of tributes, one thousand
five hundred pesos I U. D pesos

Ordinarily there are a hundred seamen, shipwrights, and forge-men, whose wages are paid from the royal treasury in Nueva Espana; and some assistance, charged to that treasury, is given to them in this island, as aid for their support, besides their ration of rice—­ which amounts in one year to two thousand pesos II U. pesos

Item:  Fifty-five Indians who are carpenters, and a like number of iron-workers, for work on the ships; and a hundred other Indians for services in casting artillery, building houses for the royal service, work on the fortifications, manning the oars on three fragatas, and ordinary service—­ who earn two thousand pesos II U. pesos

Item:  Twenty thousand fanegas of rice for the sustenance of the seamen, shipwrights, and iron-workers, and the Indians for the above works and services; at the rate of two tomins a fanega, this costs five thousand pesos V U. pesos

Five hundred quintals of iron, at one
peso a quintal U. D pesos