of instruction, always inclined to contend and disagree with them. This
is also disgraceful and of little profit for any. Severe measures
must be adopted in this regard.

_Encomenderos_

118. They pay no attention to the schedule in the collection of their
tributes, and usually practice frauds to violate it.

119. They collect tribute from minor Indians, and from the aged,
the lame, the poor, the dead, and the fugitive--their oppressions in
this respect being well known.

120. They employ the Indians in building houses and large vessels,
grinding rice, cutting wood, and carrying it all to their houses and
to Manila; and then pay them little or nothing for their labor. They
use them also for their own work for many days without pay.

121. They themselves administer justice in their village, arresting
and whipping their Indians during the collection of the tribute,
besides committing other notorious acts of violence.

122. They pay but little attention to the instruction of the Indians
or anything pertaining to it. They pay grudgingly the stipends of
their curacies, as well as the money for the building and adornment
of churches. In this regard they are at continual variance with the
ministers, and the Indians are the losers by it.

123. Although not authorized to remain in their villages longer than
to collect the tribute, they go to and live in them at many other