AVES ISLAND. 371 



[Translation.] 



F. 



The king having made himself well acq^uainted with the petition of 

 the municipal corj)oration, court of justice, and regiment of the city 

 of Maracaibo, in regard to his majesty's deigning to reintegrate their 

 province to the dominion, rule, and government, political and mili- 

 tary, with all their incidents, of the vice-royalty of Santa Fe, from 

 which it was segregated by royal decree of the 6th of September, 1777, 

 and likewise with what the late viceroy of the kingdom, Don Manuel 

 Antonio Flores, and the attorney of his royal treasury, as well as your 

 lordship and the governor of that province, have reported on the mat- 

 ter, his majesty has determined, in view of the whole, that the prov- 

 ince of Maracaibo shall continue united, as at present, to the captain 

 generalship and superintendency of Caraccas, attention being paid to 

 what is prescribed by royal decree, of the 15th of February of this year, 

 in regard to uniting the city of Truxillo, and its jurisdiction, to the 

 government of Maracaibo, and in regard to the erection of the province 

 of Yarinas into a separate command of its present rank. And in order 

 to prevent injuries from arising to the inhabitants of said province of 

 Maracaibo, and to those of the province of Cumana, Gruayana, Mar- 

 garita, and Trinidad, comprised in the same captain generalship, in 

 resorting by appeal in their affairs to the superior court of Santo Do- 

 mingo^ the king has determined to create another superior court, to 

 be composed now of one chief justice, three associate justices, and an 

 attorney, leaving a like number of judges in that of Santo Domingo, 

 and circumscribing its district to the Spanish part of that island, the 

 island of Cuba, and the island of Porto Kico, for which purpose his 

 majesty appoints, at the present time, the three judges which are to 

 serve in each of them, 



I make this known to your lordship by royal order, for your knowl- 

 edge and government. 



Grod preserve your lordship many years. 



Aranjuez, June 13, 1786. 



SONOXA 



To the Intendent of Caraccas. 



Caraccas, Novemher 27, 1786. 

 Let this royal order be communicated by circular, and recorded in 

 the court of exchequer and general auditorship of army and royal 

 treasurv. 



SAAVEDRA. 



This royal order has been recorded at Caraccas, on the 5th of De- 

 cember, 1786. 



[SEAL. J G-UTIERREZ. 



