The notary, judge, interpreter, and other agents who made this distribution, according to the order of the judge himself or of the governor, were ordered to distribute them.

In this the government notary never had any hand, share, or participation.

Many years after the payment of the eight pesos which were collected for it, and slightly before the death of Don Juan de Silva, Gaspar Alvarez, then government notary, petitioned the governor to allow him to countersign them after the former had signed them, in order to get hold of it.

This is the same thing that his nephew demands now.

Don Juan, who was under many obligations to him, and was by nature very liberal, did not hesitate to concede it to him.