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errors are to be feared in the choice of such officials, and especially if 
they are dependents of the said viceroy, without the governor having 
power to appoint them or to remove them when he sees and learns that 
they are filling their offices badly or that they are not fit for them. 
Disadvantages of article 1, modification. That the viceroys shall pro¬ 
vide with supplies those who go at their own choice and those whom the 
oidores wish to go, their servants and relatives, for they thus take away 
the places from the deserving and from those who have the means to make 
the expedition and to take others who might also make it; the favorites 
of the viceroys and ministers are always necessitous and have to be aided 
with everything. The worst thing is what happened to Don Juan, who 
sent for men to help him, and because he had to wait until the viceroy, 
the Count of Monterey, gave permission for it to be done, ten months 
passed before the relief went, and at last it did not number one hundred- 
men, which is the reason why nothing is known of Don Juan or his army 
since March 2, 1599, 16 when the last reports and letters were received 
from him. 
2. Article. Item: That after I have entered upon my said government 
and have taken possession of it, I shall have the power to choose and name 
a royal treasury and royal officials, treasurer, contador , factor, and the 
others who may be necessary for the said royal treasury, with a suitable 
salary, the said salary to be paid from the property that will belong to his 
Majesty in the said government. Let it be granted what is ordered in 
articles 43 and 64 of the said ordinances. 
Ordinances 43 and 64. When the land, province, and place has been 
chosen in which the new settlement is to be made, and investigation made 
of what supply of provisions may be in the possession of the governor in 
whose district it may be, or upon whose district it borders, let it be de¬ 
clared whether the pueblo that is to be settled is to be a city, town, or 
village. And in conformity with what is declared let the council of the 
commonwealth and the officials and members of it be established, as it is 
stated in the book of the commonwealth of Spain shall be done; so that, if 
it be a metropolitan city, it shall have a judge with the title and name of 
adelantado, or governor, or alcalde mayor, or corregidor, or alcalde ordi¬ 
nario, who shall have universal jurisdiction and together with the regi¬ 
miento shall have the administration of the commonwealth. [In addition 
there shall be] three officials of the real hacienda, twelve regidores, two 
executive clerks, two jurymen, and in each parish one attorney, one 
mayordomo, one clerk of the council, two public clerks, one of mines and 
registry, one chief town crier, one corregidor de lonja, and two consta¬ 
bles. And if it be diocesan or suffragan it shall have eight regidores and 
the other said officials perpetually. For the towns and villages there shall 
be an alcalde ordinario, four regidores, one alguacil, one clerk of the coun¬ 
cil and public clerk, and one mayordomo. If there are no officials of the 
real hacienda power shall be given to name and provide them in the in¬ 
terval until we shall provide them or until those whom we have pro¬ 
vided go. 
