ecclesiastical incomes which the crown enjoys, by virtue of pontifical bulls, the balance being supplied from his royal treasury. Inasmuch as his immunity might be prejudiced, his Majesty advised his governor of the communication with the reverend archbishop, thus avoiding disturbances and litigations in regard to the net amounts [liquidus] with the assignment in the ecclesiastical effects, such resolution being merely informative and not executive. The execution is charged only upon the governor, as is immediately inferred from what the royal despatch says: "You shall give me information of what you shall do, and its result." The decree addressed to the archbishop does not say this, from which it is evidently deduced that his Majesty's wish is that the communication to the archbishop is merely economic, in regard to the savings of the royal treasury, and authoritative, in the application of such ecclesiastical properties, so far as may be necessary. 13. The amount of the tithes and vacancies was, in fact, ascertained in the execution of the decree with the aid of his Excellency, Don Diego Camacho. It was found that the tithes, as a general rule, are not collected in these islands; and that those which are received regularly from some estates, do not exceed the sum of four hundred pesos per annum, and they are received by the cathedral church through a concession. The vacancies not proceeding from the products of curacies, could only be in the allowances with which his Majesty aids the bishops for their suitable support from the effects of his royal patrimony, exempt from the obligations by which the tithes, as ecclesiastical incomes, are accompanied, because of vacancies, and are to be converted into benefit for the new prelate, church, and pious uses. However, investigation was made of the vacancies of such stipends, and it was found uniformly in the certifications of the royal officials that they were converted as though they were tithes; and that they were applied to the holy church for its building fund, and for the aid of the archbishops and bishops who had come to these islands, as an aid in the pontifical expenses, and to furnish their household furniture and other things in a fitting manner. Only one vacancy of one of the bishoprics was then found without pay warrant, but its warrant was expected immediately. And although this and the subsequent vacancies were obtained in three payments, those payments were already applied to the expenses of the professors, both those which came from the royal treasury and those of the church fund, and maintenance of such college seminary, which necessarily became perpetual without redintegration being made in whole or in part.