13. _Memorial by Monfalcon_.--"Tomo de papeles varios, impresos y MSS. relativos a Indias; Aa--47." The following document is taken from _Recopilacion de leyes de Indias_: 14. _Laws regarding navigation and commerce_.--In lib. ix, tit. xxxxv. The following documents are taken from Pastells's edition of Colin's _Labor evangelica_: 15. _Opinion of Council and decree_.--Vol. iii, pp. 755, 756. 16. _Letter from Pedro de Arce_.--The same as No. 15, but pp. 796, 797. The following document is taken from Diaz's _Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas_: 17. _Conflicts between civil and ecclesiastical authorities_.--In pp. 323-343. NOTES [1] A note to this law in the _Recopilacion_ says that the prohibition of reciprocal commerce between Peru and Nueva Espana for natural products, and with various limitations, was raised by a decree of January 20, 1774. [2] Titulo xxii is entitled: "Of the captain-general of artillery, the artillerymen-in-chief, and others of the war and trading fleets; the artillery, arms, and ammunition." It consists of forty-eight laws. [3] The above law refers to lib. viii, tit. xvi, ley xvii, which reads as follows: "We order that the valuation of Chinese merchandise be made in Nueva Espana, in the same way as the merchandise which is sent from these kingdoms, observing in it the ordinances that have been established. After it has been made, it shall be remitted to the bureau of accounts of Mejico, so that it may make the account, and give certifications of what must be collected, and from what persons." The law is dated Madrid, December 6, 1624. [4] See VOL. xvii. p. 34, law lxxi. [5] See _VOL. XVII_, pp. 39, 40. [6] The parenthetical clause is evidently the work of one of the clerks who copied the decrees in the "Cedulario Indico." The decree mentioned, whose general tenor can easily be seen from the present decree, is not given, probably owing to an oversight of the transcriber, too late to rectify. [7] The decree whose location is above given. [8] Also contained in the "Cedulario Indico," immediately following the decree here presented, to which it is very similar in tenor. [9] An island off the south coast of Batangas, Luzon, midway in the channel between that island and Mindoro. [10] The manuscript has a side- or sub-heading at the right that reads "Pieces of gold," and in the margin at this point is the figure 10.