| 13 | pieces of bronze artillery, caliber 2 and 4. |
| 18 | iron cannons, caliber 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 14. |
| 2 | bronze mortars, with iron pivots. |
| 6 | bronze stone-mortars. |
| 12 | chambers. |
| 50 | pinzotes. |
| 250 | arquebuses and muskets. |
| 1,826 | iron balls for the artillery. |
| 14,055 | lead balls for the muskets, arquebuses, and pinzotes. |
| 294 | grenades. |
| 500 | arrobas of gunpowder, with small-arms and hand weapons, are kept in reserve, as is certified by the royal officials. |
All the above, with the clothing [for the soldiers], and the replenishment of arms and gunpowder, is provided from the capital, Manila, in accordance with the orders of this government.
Cebú and its fortifications, ca. 1742
[Photographic facsimile from original MS. in Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid]
The military force
A captain of Spanish infantry, who is the alcalde-mayor, with monthly pay of 25 pesos; an alférez of the said company, with 3 p.; a sergeant, 2 p.; an orderly, 4 p.; a lieutenant of the fort, 4 p.; 57 regular soldiers, each 1 p.; 4 minor posts—page, fifer, drummer, and standard-bearer, each 1 p.; 6 artillerymen, each 1 p.; a captain of the Pampango company, 4 p.; his alférez, 1 p., 4 t.; the sergeant, 1 p.; twenty [Pampango] soldiers, and three minor posts—page, drummer, and standard-bearer—each 4 t.; one position as overseer of the iron-forge, 3 p.; two others, as shoremaster and overseer of buildings, 2 p.; another as pilot, 1 p. Each one of the said persons receives a monthly allowance of half a fanega (which is one cavan) of rice.
The maintenance of this military post amounts to 1,584 pesos and 624 fanegas of rice every year; this expense is paid out of the proceeds of the tributes and other revenues which are collected on his Majesty’s account in the said province of Zebû.