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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

"Inasmuch as his Majesty has ordered the governor of these islands to
audit the account of the royal official judges of the islands annually,
by means of an auditor of accounts who should be appointed for that
purpose, and to send each year the report that he should make to his
Majesty, as has been done; and inasmuch as I am informed of, and see,
the disadvantages and dangers that result to the royal estate of having
the governors appoint, as is their custom, a new auditor [_contador_]
for the said accounts each year, in order to give him that profit
that is due him for other services: there is no one in that calling
as competent as is necessary. Thence it results that the said accounts
are not audited with the clearness and completeness that is advisable,
or in the good order and style in which an expert auditor would leave
them, and who would learn by experience and by special acquaintance
from the times when he should have audited them before, or by his
knowledge through the condition of other accounts that he might have
audited, the condition of the royal estate. Such a person will try
to understand the royal treasury thoroughly, while he who audits the
accounts once will do it more carelessly. All that carelessness would
cease, as would many other disadvantages which experience has shown;
and we could achieve the results that are desirable for the service
of his Majesty by appointing an auditor to audit the accounts every
year, without changing or removing him for another, but allowing him
to hold the said office continuously."

The title continues with the appointment of the said Bartolome de
Renteria as auditor of accounts, as long as it may be the will of his
Majesty and of the said governor in his royal name; and orders that the
uncertainties, additions, and results [_resultas_] that shall arise
be communicated to the said governor, so that they may be concluded
and executed with his decision. The title assigns him a salary of
five hundred pesos of common gold, payable from the royal treasury.

Book 7, folio 235. His Majesty despatched a royal decree in the
year 596, ordering the establishment of the Audiencia of the said
islands. In that provision were inserted the ordinances pertaining
to this point, namely, the sixty-seventh, the sixty-ninth, and the
ninetieth. [72] They read as follows:

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55: 1636-37; Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

"Inasmuch as his Majesty has ordered the governor of these islands to
audit the account of the royal official judges of the islands annually,
by means of an auditor of accounts who should be appointed for that
purpose, and to send each year the report that he should make to his
Majesty, as has been done; and inasmuch as I am informed of, and see,
the disadvantages and dangers that result to the royal estate of having
the governors appoint, as is their custom, a new auditor [_contador_]
for the said accounts each year, in order to give him that profit
that is due him for other services: there is no one in that calling
as competent as is necessary. Thence it results that the said accounts
are not audited with the clearness and completeness that is advisable,
or in the good order and style in which an expert auditor would leave
them, and who would learn by experience and by special acquaintance
from the times when he should have audited them before, or by his
knowledge through the condition of other accounts that he might have
audited, the condition of the royal estate. Such a person will try
to understand the royal treasury thoroughly, while he who audits the
accounts once will do it more carelessly. All that carelessness would
cease, as would many other disadvantages which experience has shown;
and we could achieve the results that are desirable for the service
of his Majesty by appointing an auditor to audit the accounts every
year, without changing or removing him for another, but allowing him
to hold the said office continuously."

The title continues with the appointment of the said Bartolome de
Renteria as auditor of accounts, as long as it may be the will of his
Majesty and of the said governor in his royal name; and orders that the
uncertainties, additions, and results [_resultas_] that shall arise
be communicated to the said governor, so that they may be concluded
and executed with his decision. The title assigns him a salary of
five hundred pesos of common gold, payable from the royal treasury.

Book 7, folio 235. His Majesty despatched a royal decree in the
year 596, ordering the establishment of the Audiencia of the said
islands. In that provision were inserted the ordinances pertaining
to this point, namely, the sixty-seventh, the sixty-ninth, and the
ninetieth. [72] They read as follows:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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