Note 23 — Chapter V · THE SEMI-JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE AUDIENCIA.

Basco y Vargas, in pursuance of this conception of his rights and duties, combined all of these asesorías under the direction of one office, placing them under the orders of his own asesor, leaving oidores in charge of each minor asesoría, except that of tobacco, which was placed under the immediate direction of the governor’s asesor. The king approved this action, giving the new official a new title, that of asesor de todo lo directivo y lo económico de la superintendencia subdelegada de la real hacienda de Filipinas.23 The local authority appointed Magistrate Castillo y Negrete to this new position at once, but the king, on the ground that the law24 forbade an oidor to hold such an office, disapproved of the appointment and gave the place to Rufino de Rivera, who had formerly been auditor de guerra and asesor de gobierno.