All the produce of the decimos is appropriated to the church. In calculating this, the chief accountant of the treasury divides it into nine equal parts; one and a half, under the name of _noveno e medio_, belongs to the crown, and is destined for the repairs and other necessities of the church; and which the sovereign, as patron, gives by way of succour. Of the other seven and a half parts, one-half is for the bishop, whose duty is to relieve the necessities of the diocesans, especially the poor ones, collected in the house erected for their habitation, because none of them are permitted to solicit alms _pelas portas_, at the doors. The residue is divided into three equal fifths, one for the dean, the remainder subdivided anew into three, two are distributed amongst the other dignitaries and the canons, with arithmetical proportion. The part remaining is portioned equally amongst the petty canons, and the half petty canons, or chaplains. The priests of the cities are denominated _reytors_, or rectors, and those of the towns, _vigarios_, or vicars. The padres only of the Indians have revenues, (_congrua_,) drawn from the coffers where the produce of the Indian lands that are sold, and the rents of the _emprazadas_, (persons paying an annual fine for lands bought,) are deposited. They receive nothing from the parishioners, except for the solemnization of burials. The priests of the churches of the whites (_brancos_) alone have the altarage, (or free offerings of the people made at the altar,) and the productions of the patrimonies with which they were founded. The churches are given after a competition of talent exhibited before the bishop. The competitors are convoked by him and the vice-patron, who is the governor, and without whose consent nothing can be decided in these cases. In order to fill up a vacancy, the bishop proposes three, the choice from which belongs to the vice-patron, if he does not reject the whole, and demand a proposal of others for his choice.