CHAPTER IX--A. D. 1662-1670 107

Alonzo Aranqui y Cortez reports the auditing of accounts and condition of the Royal Treasury--Finding of large nuggets in a hill, supposed to be a silver mine--Goes to investigate--Report of Juan Cebadilla to his Majesty of having sent out the King’s orders concerning who shall keep the keys of the Royal chest--Administration of the negroes--Harshness shown the Royal employees--Francisco Guerra Vega reports a Captain of the Garrison for indecency and offense to his superiors, for which same he was reprimanded and imprisoned as a warning--Afterward given his liberty--The King to the Captain-General of Provinces of Florida--Instructions as to the continuance of the passage to Marcana Guale--Founding of the town of Santiago--As to the performance of certain duties by soldiers, for which money shall be paid--Soldiers shall be permitted to raise their crops, and not employed in personal work for the Governor--The Governor shall look after the wants and needs of his people--By order of the King, 1670.