their former opinion regarding the passage of the religious to Japan,
and recommend that the Philippines be allowed at least a moderate
trade with that country. Both these reports are discussed in the
Council of State (September 7 and December 20, 1607), where complaint
is made against the methods of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan; and
the king is advised to allow religious from other orders to enter
that field, and to prohibit trade from the Philippines to Japan,
The king thereupon requests from Rome the revocation of the briefs
obliging friars to go to Japan via India, and a new one placing this
matter in Felipe's hands.

An itemized statement of the "annual receipts and expenditures of
the Philippine government" (August 18, 1608) enumerates these. The
receipts comprise the tributes, by encomiendas; the royal tenths
of gold, and the ecclesiastical tithes; customs duties; and fines
from the courts. All these sources of income amount to over one
hundred and twenty thousand pesos. Then are mentioned, in order, the
expenses: for salaries of government officials, alcaldes and other
local magistrates; wages of government workmen, pilots, sailors, and
others; supplies in the ship-yards, etc., and purchases for various
purposes; salaries of ecclesiastics, and other expenses for churches
and missions. To these are added "extraordinary expenses:" the cost
of embassies to neighboring rulers; salaries paid to collectors of
tribute, and others; expenses of the soldiers and their officers;
and salaries to the wardens of forts. All these expenses amount to
over two hundred and fifty-five thousand pesos a year, more than
twice as much as the income.

Felipe III writes to Velasco, the viceroy of Nueva España (September 27
1608), regarding the proposed way-station for Philippine vessels. After