20. In fulfilment of that royal decree, the investigation of the alms gathered by Abbot Sidoti was made. The application of those alms, by virtue of the conditions of the pious foundations, could not be used for the support of the eight seminarists, who were appointed at his Majesty's account; nor to aid the expenses of the royal treasury in the new building of the college on the site of the houses sequestered from [the property of] Licentiate Don Manuel Suarez de Olivera. The inhabitants who had contributed to the building fund and incomes with their alms were asked that such be allowed to be freely applied to the college ordered to be erected by his Majesty. In such an innovation, greater expenses were incurred by the royal treasury on the site opposite to the archiepiscopal palace and solicited by the governor and archbishop, because the purchase and expense of timber and its haulage were effected at a cost of four thousand pesos which were paid on the account of the royal treasury to General Don Miguel de Eloriaga so that they might be spent with the intervention of the said abbot. That is evident in the records of the account of said general presented and sworn to, in regard to such expenses, with an attestation from the said Sidoti that it was true. Thus that was a superfluous expense on the royal treasury. For although a portion of the timber bought for that money was used for the addition to the new building on the site next the sequestered house of Licentiate Suarez, in order to give greater extension to the college, very little of it was useful, and did not amount, together with that which was sold, to two thousand pesos in value. The remainder was lost with the purchased and abandoned site which was used for nothing. That could have been built with four thousand pesos if the building attempted opposite the archiepiscopal palace had been left out of the question. In that the cost to the royal treasury was about six thousand pesos, the annual maintenance aggregating one thousand two hundred pesos, without noting the necessary expenses for physician, apothecary, and other things, plus two hundred pesos for two professors in philosophy and theology.