Note 3 — ROYAL COLLEGE OF SAN FELIPE DE AUSTRIA

“The Society alleged that the decree was obtained on false representation and contained falsehoods in its narration; that its execution should be suspended, until truer reports were given to the sovereign; that, even laying aside this vice, the Society, against whom the execution was to be made, was not a party; that the royal decree did not order it, nor did law declare it, because neither the Society nor the college of San Joseph was interested in such sum, which at best ought to be collected from the collegiates, for whose use it had been spent, or from the governor, at whose order the money had been paid out; and that the embargo was an excess on laymen, since it was in ecclesiastical incomes.” On this account the royal officials decreed in favor of the Society. See Concepción’s Historia, vi, pp. 191, 192. ↑