Volume 17 — Law LXV
Reading edition
We order that the duties and freight customs collected in the port of Acapulco on the Filipinas merchandise, Page 46shall not be placed in the royal treasury of Méjico, but shall be expended in things necessary to those islands; and the sum lacking [for those necessities] shall be sent from the treasury of Méjico. The viceroy and the governor of Filipinas shall send us a particular report for each voyage of the amount of the duties and freight customs and what must be sent. [Felipe III—Valladolid, February 19, 1606.]