Note 629 — Chapter VII · PERU.
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Ibidem, 251.
A statement of expenses for 1681 shows:
Salaries of fourteen officialspesos23,528.0
Yearlyremittanceto the Suprema9,926.3
““to its Secretary496.2
““to two other secretaries and two clerks at 275 1,100.0
——11,522.5
Maintenance of poor prisoners 850.0
Extraordinary expenses2,800.0
Expenses of the cámara del secreto250.0
38,950.5
Spent in seven years on the houses of inquisitors 7,000.0
In giving this Medina (pp. 252-3) calls attention to the fact that in this enumeration are not included the salaries of a number of other officials mentioned by the receiver, as follows:
A third secretary1000
Notario del juzgado1400
Contador200
Juez de los bienes confiscados1000
Advocate of prisoners200
Steward300
Solicitador100
Barber100
4300
There is significance in the annual payments to the secretaries of the Suprema whose good will might at any moment be useful.