Royal permission, beyond any doubt, was obtained, although by an indirect method. For law liii, of título xxii, [book i] (which treats of universities and general and private studies in the Yndias) declares that "by the license of the ordinary and governor of the Filipinas Islands, and the decision of the royal Audiencia of those islands, the religious of the Order of St. Dominic in the city of Manila, founded a college where grammar, arts, and theology were read, in which they placed two religious of each branch, and twenty secular collegiates. Great gain resulted therefrom," and it is ordered that for the present and so long as his Majesty orders no other thing, "the religious make use of the license which the governor gave them for the foundation." That was not to be understood "to the prejudice of what was ordained in regard to similar foundations, so that they should not be instituted or commenced without express permission" from the king. With such requirements, respect for the foundation is declared not only by the judicial force of the foundation itself, but also by the above-cited law xliii of título vi; for that respect is equally capable of being required from persons and authorities who are strange to the institution, and from the patrons, administrators, and ministers of the institution itself. The will of such patrons would have no power against the fundamental law whence proceeds their authority. Their end is to preserve and obey that law strictly, and to cause it to be respected by others without any change or violation of it by them. The admissible innovations in the institutions under discussion have the limit and form which were laid down by the foundation. Consequently, therefore, those innovations which might have been made in the patronage, in the administrative management, or in the academical order, provided that they respected that limit and observed the jurisdiction and formality laid down by the writ of 1611, could not be considered as violations, but as faithful applications of the peculiar law of the college. The first part of the conference admits only the following categorical reply: "In the college-university, the ministry has no right to reorganize the instruction." It has a right, beyond any doubt, to organize the public instruction in Manila, in the manner which it considers most adequate for obtaining the ends of the same. One of the fundamentals which it may adopt could be the elimination [as teachers] of the fathers of the said order. But that will not fall within the college whose foundation we have before us, and the funds and properties of the same cannot be applied totally or partially to the university or college which the government may erect in such manner.