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make up the sum mentioned. Also, the captains and soldiers and people 
with the army are taking more than 150,000 dollars worth of important 
and valuable things. All of this is of much importance to the character 
and authority of the expedition and [it is necessary] that his Majesty and 
the illustrious viceroy of New Spain shall know and understand it. 
For this your Majesty ought to make a complete manifest, and unless 
it is done I insist upon making it with my secretary, so that it may be 
clear in every place and time, and I ask that you make this requisition of 
the señor commissary on my part, and that a certified copy be given me of 
his manifest and that those present be witnesses for me. Don Juan de 
Oñate. 
At the mines of Casco, of Nueva Vizcaya, where the camp of the expe¬ 
dition which is now on the way to New Mexico is lodged, before me, 
Antonio Negrete, clerk of his Majesty and secretary of inspection, ap¬ 
peared Don Juan de Oñate, governor and captain-general of the expedi¬ 
tion, and asked me to notify Francisco de Esquivel, commissary, of this 
requisition and to give him a certified copy of it and his reply to it. I read 
it to him [Esquivel] and notified him, and he replied that, as is well known 
to the governor, Don Lope de Ulloa y Lemos, inspector and former 
lieutenant-captain-general of the expedition, began to make the complete 
manifest after being requisitioned to do it three times by the governor, 
but before he had finished it he left this camp, having been called by his 
lordship, the Count of Monterey, my lord, for other matters in the service 
of his Majesty. He delegated the work of finishing it to Francisco de 
Esquivel, the aforesaid commissary, who finished it as far as concerned 
what the señor governor had offered in his account and had listed to be 
taken, and although it is true that the commissary is aware and it has 
been ordered by the commissions of his lordship that the complete mani¬ 
fest of the rest of the things which the señor governor and captains and 
officials and soldiers are taking on the expedition should be taken, it can¬ 
not be done because the inspector left no order or commission for it; 
therefore, the señor governor can do whatever is best for his interests. 
This he acknowledged and signed, Captain Juan Moreno de Carrua, 
Captain Gregorio Zesar, Alférez Romero, and Francisco de Esquivel being 
witnesses to all, before me, Antonio Negrete. 
At the pool and spring called Pedro de la Cruz, April 20, 1597, before 
Don Juan Oñate, governor and captain-general of New Mexico and of its 
kingdoms and provinces for the king, our lord, and before me, Juan 
Pérez de Donis, clerk of his royal Majesty and secretary of the expedition, 
those mentioned in this petition presented it before his lordship [Oñate] 
and asked for what is contained in it: 
We, Captain Francisco de Sosa Peñalosa, lieutenant-governor and 
captain-general of New Mexico and its kingdoms and provinces and 
neighboring territories for the king, our lord, and Alonso Sánchez, offi¬ 
cial contador juez of the real hacienda of his Majesty in the said kingdoms 
and provinces, and Captain Alonso de Sosa Albornos, and Captain Geró¬ 
nimo Márquez, captain of artillery, and Captain Marcos Farfán de los 
