You advised us that it was necessary to have some ecclesiastical person to be charged with the guardianship and the mode of governing the seminary of Santa Potenciana, and to examine the persons who are to live there. It was resolved to order the president of the Audiencia, jointly with you, to inform us of what takes place, and that in the meantime you were both to join in providing the most effective way of administering the said seminary, with regard to both the persons who enter it and those who leave it, with this justification, that it be necessary. Accordingly, you will endeavor, for your own part, to have these orders executed. Your statements regarding the foundation that was being established so that the youths of those islands might be graduated without going to the university--which foundations were to be under the patronage of the most pure conception of Mary most holy, our Lady--have been considered, and you may proceed. As to your proposition that my royal exchequer in those islands should be inspected, the necessary provisions have already been made. You advise us that in the execution of the measures contained in the decree of August 9, 1621, you have warned the heads of the orders that they shall not receive in those islands the religious from Yndia, and that you caused several clerics to embark who arrived at that city from that country. You will continue to do so, fulfilling your orders contained in this memorandum. The other points mentioned in your letter have been considered, but answers to you are not yet ready. [Madrid, October 3, 1624.] _I The King_ Countersigned by Juan Ruiz de Contreras. _Ordering the correction of abuses against the Indians by the Dominicans_