Note 2 — COMMERCE OF THE PHILIPPINES WITH NUEVA ESPAÑA
Reading edition
Expediente: “the collection of all the papers belonging to a subject in a transaction,” here evidently referring to the documents pertaining to the Manila trade, which as Abreu says (see VOL. XXX, p. 24), were placed in his hands by the Council of the Indias (of which he himself was a member) for use in compiling the Extracto. ↑