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with them to make this voyage and let them make it at the expense of the 
said Don Juan de Oñate. You will also permit the said maestre de campo 
to take the arms mentioned in the list that goes with this and which have 
been asked for the said expedition. You will examine them very carefully 
and make a record of them; of those that are carried on board and taken 
away you will give a list to the Marquis of Montesclaros, so that in New 
Spain he can examine and distribute them as seems best to him for the 
said expedition and see that they are not converted into other merchan¬ 
dise. You will watch over all this as carefully as you can in connection 
with the said fleet. Burgos, June 23, 1603. I the King. Countersigned 
by Juan de Ybarra. Signed by the Council. 
[Royal cédula. To the officials of the Casa de Contratación. Valladolid, 
September 8, 1603.] 
The King. My official judges of the Casa de la Contratación of Seville: 
As you learned by a decree of mine dated on July 23 62 of this year, I gave 
permission to Vicente de Zaldívar, maestre de campo of the expedition to 
New Mexico which is in charge of Don Juan de Oñate, to collect and take 
from these kingdoms for the said expedition in the fleet that lately left 
for New Spain up to the number of forty men 63 —musketeers and pro¬ 
fessional ship-builders—you to make arrangements for their baggage and 
stores and pay for them 1500 ducats from my royal treasury in Vera Cruz, 
with which sum I determined to aid him for the said purpose. Also [I 
gave him permission] to take two pilots and the arms mentioned in a list 
which was sent to you, as is stated more at length in the said decree, which 
is of the following purport: .... Done at Valladolid, September 8, 
1603. I the King. Etc. 
[Royal cédula. To the viceroy of New Spain. Valencia, January 21, 
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The King. Marquis of Montesclaros, my relative, viceroy, governor 
and captain-general of New Spain: To Don Alonso de Oñate, brother of 
Don Juan de Oñate, in whose charge the expedition to New Mexico is, 
I have granted permission to take in an independent ship 64 to that country 
forty men 65 —musketeers, professional ship-builders—and two pilots, who 
