In obedience to the above decree of Don Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, governor and captain-general of these Filipinas Islands, and president of the royal Audiencia herein, I, Juan Bautista de Cubiaga, auditor of accounts and results of the royal estate of these said islands, certify that it appears from the original pay-checks which are in my possession belonging to the general accounts of the royal treasury of this city of Manila, for the period between years one thousand six hundred and thirty-two and the end of one thousand six hundred and thirty-five, that the official judges of this royal estate have paid from the said royal treasury a number of pay-checks that were legitimately owing to persons who were serving in the pay of his Majesty, and for other reasons, to other extraordinary persons, by virtue of authorities, cessions, and transfers made to them by the real owners to collect them from the said royal treasury--and who did collect them--and to satisfy with them certain balances of accounts and results that persons who received posts in these islands owed to his Majesty for various reasons. The pay-checks that here appear to have been paid to such persons by virtue of authorities, cessions, and transfers made to them by the real owners, are as follows: Year of 1632 Pay-check number fifty-two, for seven hundred and fifty pesos, owed to the natives of the village of Candaba, for the value of one thousand two hundred fanegas of rice, which they gave as a bandala in the year one thousand six hundred and fifteen. It was collected by father Fray Francisco de Figueroa, procurator-general of the Order of St. Augustine, by their authorization, on August thirty, one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, by decree of the royal Audiencia which was governing _ad interim_. [25] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 pesos _Pay of the Infantry of Terrenate_ Number Amount Due to Expiration of pay- of pay- of service check check Paid to Date of payment P t g 200 0 0 Pedro Roso, a soldier June 26, 1620 Captain Alonso Garcia Romero February 18 Without decree of government. 4 100 0 0 Alonso Barrientos July 17, 1620 Adjutant Alonso Perez Manzan March 15 By decree of Juan Nino de Tabora, and by the advice of the royal officials to pay with this sum and others a balance of 1,000 pesos owed by said adjutant to the royal estate. [26] 5 200 0 0 Antonio de Asnar March 10, 1620 Adjutant Alonso Perez Manzan March 15 _Idem_.