in order to be able to make the same move with the other captains and alferezes.  The expenses of the royal treasury will thus suffer a large increase, and in matters which never have been done nor are now necessary.  It would be well, if your Majesty were so pleased, to command that all the wages, salary, and additional expenses which have been given in the said manner be returned to the royal treasury by the person who ordered them, and that henceforward none should by any means be granted; and, if it be expedient to give any, your Majesty should be informed and a royal order for that purpose awaited.

4.  In some provinces where there was one alcalde-mayor only, they have been so multiplied that now there are three, and each one with a deputy—­all with salaries from the royal exchequer.  To some of them the governors give, beside the salary, additional expenses, amounting to a hundred pesos; because such alcaldes-mayor are captains of the citizens, in the manner explained in the clause before this.  Likewise some of the said alcaldes-mayor have Spanish alguazils, although not with salaries, and although there are royal decrees directing the governor to check this, and not allow offices to increase.  It would be fitting for your Majesty to command, if you so please, that these alcaldes-mayor be reduced to the following: 

In the province of Laguna, one alcalde-mayor with three hundred pesos of salary, which is the ordinary amount.  On the opposite coast of Mauban, one corregidor; this is the district next to the said Laguna.  He should have two hundred pesos of salary.  In the province of Camarines, another alcalde-mayor, with the same salary of three hundred pesos.  Another alcalde-mayor, who has recently been appointed in the said province for the island of Catanduanes, should be removed; and the said alcalde-mayor of Camarines should care for that, as he used to do.  In the province of Cagayan, another alcalde-mayor, with the same salary.  In that of Ylocos, another alcalde-mayor, with the same salary.  In Pangasinan, another alcalde-mayor, with the said salary.  In the province of Panpanga, another alcalde-mayor, with the proper salary, who should administer the jurisdiction of the district of Bulacan, which borders upon it; all this was formerly under one alcalde.  The one who was lately added in Bulacan should be removed.

In the village of Tondo and the bay of this city of Manila (all of which is the suburbs and outskirts of the city), the governors keep another alcalde-mayor and lieutenant, although the whole of it is within the five leagues which, by your Majesty’s grace, this city of Manila has as a jurisdiction—­whose alcaldes-in-ordinary used to administer justice in all the districts of the said alcaldia-mayor of Tondo.  Now they have no more than within the walls of the city, although they are vested with authority and can make arrests outside.  It would be well, if such be your Majesty’s pleasure, to discontinue