The tributary Indians are peaceable, and appreciate with gratitude Fajardo's efforts to relieve them from taxes and wrongs.

One of their burdens has been the erection of many churches--of which there are thirty, almost all of stone, in Manila and its immediate vicinity alone.

The Council order that no religious house or church be hereafter erected without the permission of both secular and ecclesiastical authorities.

At the end of Fajardo's letter are added certain comments and directions by the Council.

They are inclined to send reenforcements, supplies, and merchandise to Filipinas via Panama, as Fajardo suggests, but direct the vessels to return to Acapulco instead.