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10. Item: You agree to take 8000 reales worth of foot-gear. 
11. Item: You agree to take as much as 12,000 reales worth of drugs 
for the cure of the sick. 
12. Item: You agree to take as much as 10,800 reales worth of iron 
tools. 
13. Item: You also agree to take as much as 2000 28 reales worth of 
articles for barter and gifts to the Indians. 
14. Item: You also agree to take as much as 2600 reales worth of 
paper. 
15. Item: And 12,000 reales in frieze and sackcloth. 
16. Item: And to take thirty ox-carts provided with everything nec- 
essarv. 
17. All of the above you offer to take over and above the supplies and 
provisions for soldiers until they arrive at the settlements, for none of 
the above-mentioned is to be touched before then. 
18. You agree and bind yourself, for the honor of your house and the 
adornment and embellishment of your person, to take the following: 
19. As many as 130 officials, soldiers and servants of your house, to 
go in your company and service from these kingdoms, the married ones 
with their wives and families. For this I will order that you be given a 
separate license to take them with you on the expedition, you to arm and 
mount them the same as the three hundred soldiers above mentioned. 
They will certainly be useful for the expedition and its purposes. 
20. Item: You agree to take twenty-five horses, thirty-three pack- 
mules with their harness, six iron-tired carts with their mules, twelve 
troopers’ saddles, twelve leather shields, twelve lances, thirty-six hal¬ 
berds, twelve coats of mail, twelve cuishes, twelve helmets with their 
beavers, six sets of horse armor, fifty harquebuses, fifty swords with their 
daggers, two complete coats of armor, two stands of arms, thirty buck¬ 
skin jackets, four steel shields with their steel helmets, fifty muskets, 
fifty crossbows, all the above to be extra for your own person, besides the 
arms and accoutrements of the soldiers. 
21. To all of this you agree, and you are under obligation to fulfill it 
exactly in the form and manner above stated, within a year and half, to 
the content and satisfaction of the said Count of Monterey, viceroy of 
New Spain, to whom, although, as is stated further on, you will not be 
subordinate to him, you will have to communicate all that you do and 
make in his presence a muster and review of the people whom you are 
taking with you. This is to be done in Mexico personally and in the 
other towns by list and certified copy signed by a clerk, all the other 
things, arms, provisions, and stores to be legally attested, so that he may 
be satisfied that you are fulfilling your obligation according to your 
agreement. 
22. Item: You agree to keep, fulfill, and try to have effectually kept 
and fulfilled, the ordinances, instructions, and decrees which are provided 
concerning the system that is to be maintained in the new explorations, 
