Consequently, exclusive of the four convents and fourteen hospitals which are cared for, and the alms which are given for wine and oil to certain churches, your Majesty pays in the Filipinas Islands and Maluco, and in their navigations and trade-line, salary, pay, and special wages to 5,878 persons, 3,338 of whom are Spaniards, and 2,540 are Indians or men of various nations. The cost of all included in the eight departments here presented, as it appears, is 850,734 pesos of eight reals. Number 56. Second point: of that which the Filipinas produce Having seen what it costs to maintain the Filipinas Islands, the second point is to ascertain how far they aid in this cost, and with what they supply your Majesty's royal treasury, in which notice is to be taken that there are eleven departments of revenue. 1. The tributes of the encomiendas which are assigned to the crown, paid by not only the natives of the islands but the Chinese and Japanese, are annually valued--in reals, and in products which proceed from 44,763 tributarios--at ten reals apiece 53,715 pesos. 2. In the encomiendas of private persons, who, as has been said, possess 84,439 tributes, there is a [royal] situado of two reals for each tribute--only eight being reserved for the encomenderos, which are valued annually at 21,107 and one-half pesos 21,107 pesos. 3. The licenses which are given annually to the Sangleys, in order that they may remain for some time in the islands, amount to about 14,000, which at eight pesos that are paid for them as fees, amount to 112,1000 pesos 112,000 pesos. 4. The tribute of these 14,000 Sangleys at five reals apiece--four for the tribute, and one for the situado--are worth 8,250 pesos 8,250 pesos. 5. The fifth and tenth of the gold that is collected from what is declared by the natives, is 750 pesos 750 pesos. 6. The ecclesiastical tithes--which are collected for the royal treasury, because all the clergy are paid from it, as has been seen--amount to 2,750 pesos. 2,750 pesos. 7. The fares for passengers, who leave the islands for other parts in royal ships, 350 pesos. 350 pesos. 8. The fines of the exchequer are worth 1,000 pesos annually. 1,000 pesos. 9. The customs duties on the merchandise of China, India, [48] and other parts, which are imported and exported, 38,000 pesos. 38,000 pesos. 10. The imposts and freight charges, customs duties, and other charges that are collected in Nueva España on the merchandise exported annually from the islands, are worth 300,000 [309,000--_MS._] pesos which is reckoned as income of the Filipinas, for those islands cause it.