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ment, all matters, civil, political, and military, are un- 

 der his diredion. He is alfo the chief magiftrate of 

 the city; the others are the two 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 tri^ 

 bute of the Indians, the duties on goods, the fifth or 

 the metals, and the like. 



The ecclefiaftical chapter is compofed of the bifhop, 

 whofe revenue is fettled at fix thoufand dollars annu- 

 ally •, the dean, who has five hundred ; the archdea- 

 con, chanter, redor, and treafurer, who have each four 

 hundred. This fee is a fuffragan of the archbifhoprick 

 of Santa Fe dc Bogota. 



PoPAYAN, lying within the jurifdidlion of the inqui- 

 fition of Carthagena, has a commifTary from thence. 

 Here is alfo another of the croifade ; but the au- 

 thority of thefe two judges extends not beyond the 

 diocefe, which is far lefs than that of the government, 

 a confiderable part of it belonging to the archbifhoprick 

 of Quito. 



The jurifdidlion of the government of Popayan 

 reaches fouthward to the river Mayo, and to Ipiales, 

 where it borders on the jurifdidlion of the town of San 

 Miguel de Ibarra north eafb it terminates with the 

 province of Antioq^uia, the lad of its provinces, and 

 contiguous to that of Santa Fe ; and northward bor- 

 ders on the government of Carthagena. Its ancient 

 weftern bounds were the South fea, but it has fince 

 been fo contradled by the new government of Choco, 

 that the territory of Barbacoas is the only part of it 

 which reaches to the fea ; eaftward 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 

 conjedlure may be made, that from eaft to weft it is 

 about 80 leagues, and litde lefs from north to iouth. 



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