I the King
By order of the king our sovereign.
Juan de Ybarra
[Endorsed: “December 19, 635. Have these papers collected; bring what is provided.” “Have all these papers taken to the fiscal. In the Council, January 16, 636.” “The fiscal asks that this decree be brought authorized by the secretary, so that he may answer and petition what he shall believe to be expedient. Madrid, January 19, 1636.” “The fiscal says that the decree of which a reissue is requested does not touch upon the case for which it is now requested; and that he considers as a rigorous measure that what is therein permitted to the Chinese should not be permitted to the Portuguese, who are his Majesty’s vassals—they having occupied that port of Macan, as he understands, after the said decree was issued. Madrid, January 22, 1636.”]
Customs duties collected at Manila on Chinese merchandise
In thirteen years while the Sangleys had control of the trade of Chinese merchandise—namely, from that of 1606 to that of 1618—they paid in duties to his Majesty, according to the certification of the accountant for the official visit, 574,627 pesos, 6 tomins. In another thirteen years while the Portuguese of Macan have controlled the said trade, they have paid only 90,641 pesos, 2 tomins. Consequently, comparing the one time with the other, there is, as he has informed his Majesty, a shortage of 483,986 pesos, 4 tomins, in his royal treasury.
This account is presented in detail in the following manner:
| Year of 1606 | 32,113 pesos, | 3 tomins, | 3 granos. |
| Year of 1607 and 1608 | 75,462 pesos, | 0 tomins, | 4 granos. |
| Year of 1609 and 1610 | 131,341 pesos, | 4 tomins, | 0 granos. |
| Year of 1611 | 26,053 pesos, | 0 tomins, | 7 granos. |
| Year of 1612 | 95,639 pesos, | 2 tomins, | 8 granos. |
| Year of 1613 | 69,427 pesos, | 7 tomins, | 0 granos. |
| Year of 1614 | 36,105 pesos, | 2 tomins, | 6 granos. |
| Year of 1615 | 41,558 pesos, | 1 tomin, | 1 grano. |
| Year of 1616 | 23,377 pesos, | 0 tomins, | 0 granos. |
| Year of 1617 | 37,179 pesos, | 5 tomins, | 5 granos. |
| Year of 1618 | 5,770 pesos, | 0 tomins, | 0 granos. |
| 574,627 pesos, | 6 tomins, | 10 granos. |
Duties which the Portuguese of Macan have paid on the merchandise of China in the thirteen years from that of 1619 to that of 1631, according to the same certification; and also those which the Chinese ships that have come in those same years have paid.
| Macan | Years | China | ||||
| pesos | tomins | granos | pesos | tomins | granos | |
| 1,172 | 6 | 3 | 1619 | 11,148 | 0 | 0 |
| 8,903 | 0 | 0 | 1620 | 27,797 | 0 | 0 |
| 9,653 | 5 | 0 | 1621 | 6,692 | 6 | 11 |
| 7,370 | 0 | 0 | 1622 | 8,040 | 0 | 0 |
| 4,238 | 3 | 5 | 1623 | 1,759 | 3 | 9 |
| 5,444 | 0 | 0 | 1624 | 2,998 | 6 | 0 |
| 6,917 | 0 | 0 | 1625 | 10,894 | 0 | 0 |
| 10,248 | 0 | 0 | 1626 | 22,580 | 0 | 0 |
| 9,092 | 3 | 8 | 1627 | 20,385 | 0 | 0 |
| 3,036 | 0 | 0 | 1628 | 2,943 | 0 | 0 |
| 641 | 0 | 0 | 1629 | 3,957 | 0 | 0 |
| 11,645 | 0 | 0 | 1630 | 6,287 | 0 | 0 |
| 7,480 | 0 | 0 | 1631 | 18,344 | 0 | 0 |
| 90,641 | 2 | 4 | 143,826 | 6 | 8 | |