"The viceroys, presidents, and auditors of the royal audiencias shall not allow any of the religious of St. John of God to live or reside in the Indias, who shall have gone thither without our permission; or to found convents, give habits to any persons, or allow them to profess. Those who may be living in the provinces of their districts, or shall go thither later with our permission, shall not take upon themselves the care of the hospitals, either of Indians or of Spaniards, or the management of their incomes and alms, unless by first binding themselves to give reports and allow inspections in this respect by the ecclesiastical, or secular judges who can and ought to make them. And they shall not be exempt from that by saying that they have a bull from the apostolic see to be religious, and that they are ordained with holy orders, and that therefore they are to be subordinate only to their regular prelate. Neither shall they be exempt from the inspection for any other excuse that they may bring forward."--See _Recopilacion de leyes_, lib. i, tit. xiv, ley xxiv. [64] In the margin at this point: "Total number of souls, 68,334." [65] In the margin at this point: "Total number of persons, 42,178." [66] In the margin at this point: "Total number of souls, 4,000." [67] In the margin at this point: "Total number of souls, 70,961." [68] The number of christianized natives is stated, on Murillo Velarde's map, as 900,000. Cf. the statement by Le Gentil (p. 209 _post_), of the number in 1735--so in his printed text, but perhaps a typographical error for 1755. [69] A full account of the Jesuit college and university is furnished by Murillo Velarde in _Hist. Philipinas_, fol. 125, 140, 168-171. [70] _Beaterio:_ a house inhabited by devout women. [71] Evidently then the appellation of that part of the archipelago now included under the term "province of Paragua," which includes not only the Calamianes Islands, but those of the Cuyos group, and part of the island of Palawan (or Paragua). [72] Literally, "holy table," equivalent to the modern "board of directors;" a reference to the Confraternity of La Misericordia, which, as we have seen in former documents, was the main charitable agency of Manila.