In order better to understand these tables, no estimate is made, in the class of secular ecclesiastics, of the additional sums which many of them enjoy from the treasury besides the amounts from the tributes to which they minister, for the amount required for their subsistence, in accordance with the royal decrees and acts of the treasury council obtained at the beginning of their establishment; and this surplus causes the disparity which cannot fail to be noticed. In the province of Tayabas, which is administered by the religious of St. Francis, there is no charge for rice, since this is always included in the amount of cash [supplied from the treasury]—as was agreed between this order, the governor, and the royal officials, on account of the scarcity [of supplies] in that province, and the difficulties which are found in the remittance, transportation, and delivery of that commodity.
It is also set forth that, after the budget for the provinces was drawn up, and the number of tributes in them realized, it was resolved in a conference of the royal treasury officials to abolish the register of strolling Indians, reducing them to a poll-list like the rest of the tribute-payers. According to these latest enumerations the amounts of the stipends are settled, and not in accordance with those which were considered in the aforesaid budget—from which fact arises the difference which is found in this one.
Summary of the amounts of stipends and contributions
| Ministries | Cash | Rice, | Wine, | Oil, | |||
| p. | t. | gr. | cav. | gant. | arrobas | gantas | |
| 49 curates, 13 sacristans, and 1chaplain—[seculars] | 9,338 | 3 | 4 | 9,764 | 21 | 49 | 3,675 |
| 42 ministers, religious of St.Dominic | 4,663 | 1 | 5 | 9,326 | 6 | 72 | 3,150 |
| 62 ministers, discalced religious of St.Francis | 5,760 | 3 | 9 | 8,895 | 7 | 80 | 4,650 |
| 89 ministers, calced Augustinianreligious | 11,690 | 4 | 7 | 23,013 | 10 | 134 | 6,675 |
| 71 ministers and 1 chaplain of theSociety of Jesus | 7,532 | 3 | 8 | 14,554 | 21 | 83 | 5,325 |
| 28 ministers and 2 chaplains of thediscalced Augustinians | 2,728 | 1 | 4 | 4,284 | 7 | 55 | 2,100 |
| Totals | 41,713 | 2 | 1 | 69,839 | 473 | 25,575 | |
| p. | t. | gr. | cav. | gant. | arrobas | gantas | |
General summary of the amounts, in stipends, contributions, and grants, with which the ecclesiastical estate in these islands is aided on his Majesty’s account.
| Cash | Rice, | Wine, | Oil, | ||||
| p. | t. | gr. | cav. | gant. | arrobas | gantas | |
| Four cathedral churches | 26,490 | ||||||
| Colleges, hospitals, and other houseswithout administration | 15,326 | 4 | 4,924 | 158 | 2,319 | ||
| Grants of encomiendas, and their netproduct | 7,817 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Encomiendas in which collections aremade by the royal treasury | |||||||
| Active missions, summary | 9,239 | 1 | 4 | 10,376 | 3 | 300 | |
| Stipends of ministers in charge ofdoctrinas | 41,713 | 2 | 1 | 69,839 | 473 | 25,575 | |
| Totals | 100,586 | 3 | 6 | 85,139 | 634 | 28,194 | |
| p. | t. | gr. | cav. | gant. | arrobas | gantas | |
This is, in brief, what his Catholic Majesty piously expends and distributes every year from his royal exchequer in aiding the ecclesiastical estate and the divine worship in these islands, not only in money but in rice, wine, and oil—in everything conforming to the royal decrees and other provisions, on which is based the certified statement furnished by the royal officials to this government. And, in order that the total amount from both [these kinds of aid] may be better understood, I have thought it best to proceed to the reduction of commodities [to a cash basis], by which may be exhibited the actual cash value [of all that is given for this purpose].
Reduction of commodities for the computation of the whole in cash
| [Class of aid] | Commoditiesfurnished | Rates of cost | Cash value, | ||||
| p. | t. | gr. | |||||
| Actual cash | 100,586 | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Rice (24 gantas in a cavan) | 85,139 | cavans | 4 | tomins a cavan | 42,569 | 4 | |
| Wine for masses (arrobas) | 634 | arrobas | 25 | pesos an arroba | 15,850 | ||
| Oil for the lamps (gantas) | 28,194 | gantas | 1 | tomin a ganta | 3,524 | 2 | |
| Sumtotal 162,530 p., 1 t., 6 gr. | |||||||