The royal hospital is located near the royal chapel. The soldiers of the army of Manila and the seamen of his Majesty's service are treated there. It has a chaplain, superintendent, physician, surgeon, apothecary, and other followers with similar duties, and the employees required for the care and refreshment of the sick. There is another royal seminary and college in this city that bears the title of San Felipe. It was founded in the time of Governor Don Fausto Cruzat y Gongora, to whom an order, dated November 28, 1697, was given in a royal decree, to report how the said college or seminary could be founded, so that some boys might be reared there for the cathedral service. The said governor having reported, his Catholic Majesty, Don Felipe V, determined, by his royal decree of April 28, 1702, [75] to erect the college for eight seminarists. The amount of its building and maintenance was to be taken from the funds resulting from vacant sees of bishops of these islands and from the tithes, while the part lacking was to be taken from the royal treasury. The archbishop of Manila was to have part in everything, and he was to inform his Majesty of what should be done. The royal decree having been carried out, while the master-of-camp Don Diego Camacho y Avila was governing, it appears that four thousand pesos were paid by general council of the treasury, held May 22, 1705, for the building. Full notice will be given of the events connected with that seminary and royal college in the body of this history. ECCLESIASTICAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES [The French scientist Le Gentil, in his _Voyages dans les mers de l'Inde_ (Paris, 1781), pp. 170-191, speaks as follows of the ecclesiastical estate of the Philippines.] Ninth Article Ecclesiastical survey of the Philippine Islands The first church in Manila was erected as a parish church in the year 1571, and dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The Augustinians and the discalced Franciscans had charge of it until 1581, when the first bishop arrived. Gregory XIII, by a bull, dated Rome, 1578, erected the parish church of Manila into a cathedral, and Philippe II, king of Espana, established the chapter. It is composed of five dignitaries--dean, archdeacon, orecentor, schoolmaster [_ecolatre_], [76] and treasurer--two whole prebendaries; two half prebendaries [77] two parish priests [_cures_]; sacristans; master of ceremonies; and beadle. The divine office is celebrated in this cathedral with great state and majesty. The archbishop receives 5,000 piastres [78] (25,500 livres); the dean, 600 (3,030 livres); archdeacon, schoolmaster, precentor, and treasurer, each 500 (2,525 livres); the three canons--namely, the doctoral, the magistral, and the one of grace or favor--and the two half prebendaries, each 400 (2,020 livres); the master of ceremonies, 1,200 livres; and last, the two parish priests [_cures_], each 924 livres.