Note 2 — Chapter IX
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It also appears by another certificate that on July 3, 643, the purveyor and deputies of the Misericordia paid 57,468 pesos, 2 tomins by way of a loan, by virtue of an order of the said governor, to attend to the necessities of the treasury. And inasmuch as in the said year, because of his Lordship having before received a royal decree under date of June 28 of the year 635, he wrote to this board a letter [January 28, 1643]2 which is conserved in the original with many others of all appreciation, we believe it advisable to give it here, its tenor being as follows: