the love and service of God, provide and afford them their support,
their good, their care, and their salvation, spiritual and temporal.

The royal Majesty will be much advantaged, because by the charity,
good order, and system that will exist, several salaries for persons
employed in the said hospital may be dispensed with, and there will
be more profit and increase of the revenue; while for the support of
the poor there will be a larger fund, in addition to the fact that
they will be better cared for and served. The result will be that
health will more abound, and that perhaps mortality will be lessened,
together with these great sicknesses--a great service to God and
his royal Majesty, and the state; for his Majesty will have more
soldiers, by which he will reap a profit, and in this case a great one,
because of the great cost and expense of sending and bringing them
here. The state will also have a larger population, more citizens
and men to defend it, in addition to the great private and ordinary
benefit received by the people thereof, in saving much expense on
their property incurred for the care of their servants and slaves,
as well as trouble, care, and responsibility, by their being cared
for in the said hospital bodily and spiritually.

Then the importance of this for the souls and bodies, not only
of the Spaniards but those of the slaves, may easily be seen and
understood. For the former, the Spaniards, fail not to have and
to suffer great and special need in their illnesses and deaths,
of someone to minister to them, or at the least to aid and comfort
them therein; while the latter, the slaves, as a people cast off and
the greater part of them ordinarily belonging to the royal crown,
and of so different races--some or many of them yet to be converted,
or imperfectly instructed and entered in the Christian faith--still