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appoints a cleric of high character and education to be its Rector ; 

 he has an annual salary of 400 assay pesos and a living apartment 

 in the college, with two daily rations for himself and a manservant, 

 and 4 reals' worth of hay every day for the mule. 



1742. In the Jesuit College there is a Lector for the instruction 

 of the sons of that country ; on his account this college is given 

 annually 1,000 assay pesos by the Royal Treasury in Potosi, by virtue 

 of a royal warrant which they hold to this effect. There is also a 

 shrine of San Roque as one leaves the city on the Potosi highway. 



Chapter XXXI 



Of the District Comprised within the Archdiocese of This City, 

 and the Jurisdiction of the Circuit Court Located There. 



1743. This Archdiocese holds a very wide and rich jurisdiction, 

 extending from N. to S. over 160 leagues, from the Province of 

 Paria, where it borders on those of Los Pacajes and Caracollo in 

 the Diocese of La Paz, down to the farthest bound of the Province 

 of Atacama, where it is bounded to the S. by the Copiapo Valley in 

 the Diocese of Santiago de Chile. From E. to W. it covers 200 

 leagues, from the Province of Los Carangas, its western boundary 

 against the villages of Arica in the Diocese of Arequipa, to the 

 Omaguaca Valley and Province of Los Chichas on the E., which 

 border on Jujuy in the Diocese of Tucuman. 



1744. Within this district it contains very large and wealthy prov- 

 inces, which are : on the W., those of Los Carangas and Paria ; to 

 the WSW., those of Los Lipes and Atacama ; on the NE., the rich 

 Cochabamba Valley ; near the city, the Provinces of Amparaes, 

 Chayanta, and others ; to the E., those of Los Chichas, Tomina, 

 and Tarija, the rich Pilaya valleys and the town of Paspaya, where 

 they produce large amounts of wine, and others producing wine, 

 wheat and other cereals, and there are sugar mills and large cattle 

 ranches, all of which bring in abundant tithes to the Archdiocese. 



1745. They have very rich silver mines in the district : those of 

 Potosi 18 leagues away, so renowned all over the world ; those of 

 Oruro, 47 leagues distant ; those of Porco, 5 leagues from Potosi ; 

 those of Valmisa, again 5 leagues; those of Berenguela, 12 leagues 

 from Oruro ; those of Colquiri ; those of Tulco in Los Carangas ; 

 those of Usloca in Los Lipes ; those of Alota, Tupiza, and Turque, 

 not to mention other very rich mines in the district. From these 

 comes the major part of the silver arriving in Spain ; and there are 

 many others for the whole country is paved with it. 



