Security will at least be given for the salaries that are not reduced, by the persons who should enjoy them, so that they would be returned if your Majesty did not consider it fitting; or if not, I shall pay them, although I should not do so willingly.

Inasmuch as the salaries of those of all the posts and offices were not stated in the memorial I shall do so here.
The sargento-mayor of this camp and city of Manila receives forty ducados of ten reals each per month.
There are three adjutants, two of whom receive pay of twenty-four ducados per month; while the other serves in the ordinary post of soldier, waiting until one of the two paid offices becomes vacant, and on account of meriting more.

All are necessary.
The captain of the guard receives twenty-four ducados of ten reals per month.
The companies have their two drummers and the ordinary additional pay but not all of them.
The reduction will include the companies that lately came new, as that is more proper, in order not to cause the old colors to be disbanded.

But they will not be greatly restricted, if the captains and officers with their staff have brought a year's advance pay from Nueva Spana.
The castellan of Manila enjoys eight hundred pesos per year, or fifty-three ducados of ten reals, and three and one-third reals per month.

If he has an encomienda, in addition to this, as your Majesty has been informed, it is a very small one.
His lieutenant receives twenty-eight ducados of ten reals.
The other lesser officers and soldiers receive the pay of those of any company of the army.
The commandants of the forts of Nueva Segovia, the town of Arebalo, and the city of Cibu, receive each thirteen ducadoes of ten reals, plus three and one-third reals per month.