CHAPTER V.Of the expense incurred by your Majesty to maintain the.
fortified posts of Tidore and Terrenate in the Malucas Islands.
I said in the second part of this relation that the reenforcements of money and men which are brought from Nueva Espana to the Filipinas were not to preserve those islands, but were occasioned by the war with the Dutch.

I shall now set down here a memorandum of the expenses of those forts, without the many other requisites.
_Relation of the salaries and expenses which your Majesty has to pay in the Malucas Islands_ Pesos A warden and commander of the troops, with two thousand ducados of salary each year, which at eleven reals to the ducado, makes 2757 pesos, 2 tomins, and 9 granos 2U757 Seven captains of Spanish infantry, with 990 pesos of salary a year, amounting to.

6U930 Seven alferezes of these companies, with 412 pesos, 4 tomins of salary each per year.

2U887 Seven sergeants, with 206 pesos, 2 tomins, apiece each year, amounting to.

1U443 Fourteen drummers, at 171 pesos each per year, amounting to.