The fact that the galleon carried a cargo of over two million pesos affords no small insight into the way in which the merchants and officials obeyed the law which forbade an annual return exceeding 1,000,000 pesos. See Martínez de Zúñiga, Estadismo, I, 266–270.
[99] Anda to Carlos III, June 22, 1764, Blair and Robertson, XLIX, 262–268.
[100] Martínez de Zúñiga, An historical view, II, 234–235.
[101] Ibid., II, 235; see Montero y Vidal, Historia general, II, 65–66.
[102] Montero y Vidal, op. cit., II, 68–70. The treaty of peace between England and Spain was signed on February 10, 1763. Notice had been served on Anda several times that suspensions of military operations had been authorized, but the oidor-gobernador was suspicious, and would not respond to the overtures of the British. The Spanish troops under Anda’s command entered Manila on June 10, 1764, and the British forces evacuated the same day. Montero y Vidal (op. cit., II, 71) states that the new governor, Torre, feigned illness on the day of the transfer of sovereignty that Anda might be enabled to receive the keys of the city and thus not be deprived of the honors which he had so faithfully earned.
[103] Martínez de Zúñiga, An historical view, II, 241.
[104] Anda was made Councillor of Castile on November 6, 1767. A life’s pension was bestowed on him on November 19, 1769. He remained in Spain until 1770 when he returned to the Philippines as governor (A. I., 106–4–4).
[105] In Mexico two prelates governed ad interim after this time—Peralta in 1787 and Beaumont in 1809. Bolton, Guide, 469–470.
[106] Cédulas of November 23, 1774, and July 2, 1779, A. I., 102–2–9.
[107] Articles 61 and 63, Royal Instruction of Regents, Rodríguez San Pedro, Legislación ultramarina, VII, 22–28. This Instruction transferred to the regent all the powers and prerogatives which formerly belonged to the senior magistrates of the audiencias. These are defined in Recopilación, 2–15–57 and 58.