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ordinary alcaldes, chofen annually, and a proper number of regidores, the conftitution 

 being the fame as in other cities. 



Here is a chamber of finances, into which are paid the feveral branches of the royal 

 revenue ; as the tribute of the Indians, the duties on goods, the fifth of the metals, 

 and the like. 



The ecclefiaftical chapter is compofed of the bifhop, whofe revenue is fettled at fix 

 thoufand dollars annually ; the dean, who has five hundred ; the archdeacon, chanter, 

 redtor, and treafurer, who have each four hundred. This fee is a fuffragan of the 

 archbiflioprick of Santa Fe de Bogota. 



Popayan, lying within the jurifdittion of the inquifition of Carthagena, has a com- 

 miffary from thence. Here is alfo another of the Croifade ; but the authority of thefe 

 two judges extends not beyond the diocefe, which is far lefs than that of the govern- 

 ment, a confiderable part of it belonging to the archbiflioprick of Quito. 



The jurifdiftion of the government of Popayan reaches fouthward to the river Mayo, 

 and to Ipiales, where it borders on the jurifdiftion of the town of San Miguel de Ibarra ; 

 north-eaft it terminates with the province of Antioquia, the laft of its provinces, and 

 contiguous to that of Santa Fe ; and, northward, borders on the government of Car- 

 thagena. Its ancient weflern bounds were the South Sea, but it has fince been fo con- 

 traded by the new government of Choco, that the territory of Barbacoas is the only 

 part of it which reaches to the fea ; eaflward it fpreads itfelf to the fources of the river 

 Coqueta, which are alfo thought to be thofe of the river Oronoco and Negro : its 

 extent is not precifely determined : but a probable conje<Elure may be made, that from 

 eaft to weft it is about eighty leagues, and little lefs from north to fouth. This jurif- 

 didtion being fo large, and containing many towns and villages, is divided into feveral 

 departments, over each of which the principal governor nominates a deputy for the 

 adminiftration of juftice, and introduces them to the audience to which they belong, 

 where his nomination is confirmed ; a circumftance neceffary to procure them all the 

 weight and fecurity in the feveral departments which are conferred on them. Thofe 

 which form the government of Popayan are, 



I. Santiago di Cali. VII. Almaguer. 



II. Santa Fe de Antioquia. VIII. Caloto. 



III. Las Quatro Ciudades. IX. San Juan de Pafto. 



IV. Timana. X. El Rapofo. 

 V. Guadalajara de Buga. XI. Barbacoas. 



VL S. Sebaftian de la Plata. 



In each of thefe departments, befides the chief town, are feveral others very 

 large and well peopled ; and great numbers of feats and farm-houfes, where the num- 

 ber of people employed gives them the appearance of villages rather than private 

 dwellings. 



Of the above-mentioned departments, thofe towards the north and eaft of the city of 

 Popayan, as Santa Fe de Antioquia, Las Quatro Ciudades, Timana, and S. Sebaftian 

 de la Plata, belong to the audience and province of Santa Fe ; the others lying nearer 

 to Quito belong to its province ; and thofe of San Juan de Pafto, and Barbacoas, are 

 within its diocefe. 



The departments of Cali and Buga, lying betwixt the governments of Popayan and 

 Choco, thrive, as being the channel of the commerce which is carried on continually 



betwixt 



