The number lacking [to serve as volunteers] shall be paid from that fund [_i.e._, the natives' chest] and from what his Majesty usually gives them.

The same shall be done if soldiers are needed for Terrenate, or rice and any other supplies.

Thus will everything necessary be provided, and that without delay; and the country will not be harassed or the Indians afflicted.
Supposing that from the sum given this year by the Indians, there should be a surplus, because of no war or shipbuilding, then that sum would be kept, and the following year there would be no repartimiento nor would the amount be again collected.

And supposing that the sum that was collected should be insufficient because of the many expenses of that year, then the Indians would be again asked for what should seem necessary.

If this were done with due system and method in using the chest, and in a Christian spirit, each Indian would be saved, besides his discomforts, persecutions, and afflictions, more than fifteen or twenty pesos; his Majesty would be served better; and many mortal sins committed by the officials--who rob the Indians on one side, and on the other defraud his Majesty's treasury--would be avoided; for (as has been experienced) the alcaldes-mayor or judges who go to get rice and the other things belonging to his Majesty send it by the quantity of five hundred baskets at cheaper rates.