Marquis of Manzera, ióyi 
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Resume and summary of the charges and requisitions made upon the 
natives of the provinces and towns in tributes and royal service. 
[■ 1653-1656 .] 
Résumé and summary of the charges and requisitions made upon the 
natives of the provinces and towns in tributes and royal service, which 
they pay to his Majesty in articles such as each province and town pro¬ 
duces, by obligation of their appraisement to pay in bales of cotton cloth, 
each bale to have twenty pieces of five varas; bales of cacao, each contain¬ 
ing 24,000; mats, which resemble Spanish matting; loaves of white salt; 
cotton thread; huípiles —clothing worn by the Indians of these kingdoms; 
maize, which is auctioned in the Real Almoneda [royal auction], and 
which his Majesty gives to the ministers of the gospel for their sustenance, 
because of their occupation in the administration of the holy sacraments. 
The payment and collection of this maize are embraced in the copied 
account which was presented in this tribunal by Don Martin, the auditor of 
San Martin. This runs from January 1, 1653, to the end of December, 
1656, for he is not under obligation to make this collection but only to hand 
at the end of each year to the judges and royal officials of this court an 
account signed by his name of what these tributes and royal service amount 
to in specie, with the attestation of the cashier, as it is known that he has 
done in the four years of this account. The said goods are to be auctioned 
in the Real Almoneda and the said royal officials to collect, so that their 
total amounts may agree with the sum to which they amount in money, 
and to them the result or results of the required collection should be 
charged. This [the following account] is the method that is used in this 
tribunal, and although it is not an account taken in this way since its 
foundation, at least its goods and quantities, are in this manner. 
[Two rubrics.] 
[Here follow the accounts. —F. R. B.] 
The Marquis of Manzera, viceroy of New Spain. April 5, ióyi. He 
gives account of the increase in the revenues from the tributes and 
royal service which has occurred during the time of his administration. 
Madam: 10 One of the principal branches of which the real hacienda 
of this kingdom is composed is that of the tributes and royal service of the 
Indians, and, understanding it to be so, I have given very particular atten¬ 
tion, not only to the punctual collection of the revenue—taking care that 
the auditor-general fulfills his duty and does not allow the delinquencies 
that were wont to occur in other times, either through negligence or ill- 
intention—but in not permitting that, with the pretext of the diminution 
of the Indians, there should be made, easily, and without mature and 
careful consideration, the reductions that also used to occur, to the grave 
impairment of the royal assets; and, what is more important, in procuring 
personal information of the growth and increase of Indians in all the 
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