602. His Excellency the bishop of Zebu receives an annual stipend of four thousand pesos of common gold, by virtue of a royal decree dated May 28, 1680. The cura of the sacristy of that holy church receives 183 pesos 6 tomins 7 granos; the sacristan, 91 pesos 7 tomins 3 granos. The other two bishops, their curas, and sacristans, receive the same stipends, and for the same reason. Chapter LIII Curacies and administrations of the bishopric of Zebu Curacies 615. The sickness and death of the bishop, and the distance of that bishopric, have delayed the news that I had hoped to receive of the curacies in its district. Therefore, I shall proceed with the administrations of the religious throughout that bishopric. Administrations of religious 616. In the city of Zebu is the convent of the calced Augustinian fathers--the first temple and sacred repository of the miraculous image of the holy Child that was discovered--where, as a rule, three religious live, without administration. 617. Outside the walls is the convent of San Nicolas, or Zebu el Viejo [_i.e._, "Old Zebu"], which was the first village conquered by the Spaniards. Hence its natives are reserved from tribute, and are ministered to by the Augustinian fathers. The number of souls reaches 3,504. 618. The administrations of the villages of Argao, Bolohon, Cotcot (with Liluan), in the island of Zebu, whose souls number 8,666, have been lately ceded (in this year of 1737) to the fathers of the Society, with the necessary licenses. 619. In the province of Panay: in the village and capital of Capis, and in the villages of Batan, Mambusao, Dumalag, Dumarao, and the village of Panay. In those administrations there are reckoned to be about 18,785 souls. 620. In the province of Ogtong, in the villages of Miyagao, Antique, Bugason, Tigbaoan, Cabutuan, Laglag, Passi, Anilao, Dumangas, the island of Guimaras, Haro, Ogtong, and Guimbal--in which there are 52,906 souls. 621. In the two above-mentioned provinces of Ogtong and Panay, there are innumerable souls of the apostate Cimarrones, the children of Christian parents, who have fled to the mountains. Much activity has been always displayed in their conversion, especially since the year 1731, and much gain is hoped from it. 622. The holy Society of Jesus has one of their colleges in the city of Zebu, and near it the administration of Mandabe. But lately the three villages of Argao, Bolohong, and Cotcot (with its annexed village of Liluan), which were conceded to them by the Augustinian fathers, have been added to them in the same province of Zebu. And near Zebu, in the small island of Poro, the chief island of the three called Camotes. 623. In the island of Bohol: in the villages of Loboc, Baclayon, Dauis, Malabohoc, San Miguel de Hagna, Talibong, and Ynabanga.