Offices should not be sold; and encomiendas should be made large enough to pay their necessary taxes and other expenses.

The Indians should not be obliged to pay the royal share of their gold; and their lawsuits should be despatched in the courts with simplicity and promptness.

Tribute should not be collected from them by force, and without giving them religious instruction; and the boundaries of some encomiendas should be changed.

A "protector of the Indians" should be appointed, who should not be also the royal fiscal; he should, besides, have charge of the Chinese.

The soldiers are compelled to serve, yet are allowed no pay, from which many evils ensue; the troops have become demoralized; and the very existence of the colony is thus endangered.