In the port of Acapulco, your Majesty has three royal officials, who are present from the time of the arrival of these ships until they have once more set sail.  In the despatching of the vessels they look as much to their own comforts as to the service of your Majesty.  They make friends among the registrars, and shut their eyes to the money that is wont to be sent on commission.  The governors are powerless to remedy this from here.  I think that your Majesty can dispense with all these three positions; and that, besides saving their salaries, your Majesty will be much better served if, at the arrival of the ships, your Majesty order that the castellan and the alcalde-mayor of Acapulco do not permit them to discharge their cargoes, and that an accountant-in-chief of the bureau of accounts be always sent from Mexico on the first of December to attend to the unlading; and that he be accompanied by the alcalde-mayor of Acapulco, or by the castellan of that fort.

In the letters that I write pertaining to government and military affairs, I touch on some points which also touch this matter of the revenue; and I do not repeat them, in order not to become prolix.  I only go back in this to represent the difficulties occasioned here by its being known that the governors give account of everything—­as I am giving it and shall continue to give it as my conscience dictates to me; for others will not neglect to advise you of many things pertaining to your royal service.  Will your Majesty provide in this what will be most suitable.  May God preserve your Majesty.  Manila, August 14, 1633.

Don Juan Cerezo Salamanca

REPORT OF ARCHBISHOP ON THE BAKERY OF MANILA

Sire: 

On behalf of this city a royal decree has been presented to me in which your Majesty commands me to inform you in regard to the favor which Governor Don Fernando de Silva extended to the said city and to Captain Andres Fernandez de Puebla, giving them the income from the bakery of this city, which was established on the site and lot belonging to the said Andres Fernandez de Puebla, he enjoying half the rent and the said city the other half.  The said Andres Fernandez de Puebla is an old citizen, who has served your Majesty with approval.  Complying with the said instruction, and in order to investigate the matter with fairness and accuracy, as it should be, I personally went to the said bakery and inspected it.  I found it walled entirely about with cut stone, and with doors and stout locks, so that when it is locked up at night no one can go in or come out.  The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.  Although there are some filling timbers lacking in the middle, it is nothing of importance, and may be easily repaired.  I found in the said bakery a Spanish overseer, who serves as a faithful manager and who lives there continually, as I have been informed.  He does not allow the