Note 6 — Chapter VI · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE GOVERNOR: GENERAL RELATIONS
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They were instructed, in short, to do all for the provinces under their charge6 that the king, himself, might do. The laws of the Indies ordered the audiencia, the religious authorities and the civil officials to acknowledge the governor [or viceroy] as their chief. The laws emphasized as the special duties of the governor the supervision and augmentation of the finances, the defense of the colony, and general supervision over all officials, executive and judicial, central and provincial.