instruct and teach; that they shall have the qualifications that are
required for the duties of the curacies that they have to perform;
and that the religious missionaries be visited by the secular prelates
in regard to the curacies: I have been informed that it is not obeyed
as is advisable; that the prelates do not exercise the care that is
advisable in examining the said religious missionaries, in order to
satisfy you that they are competent and that they thoroughly understand
the language of those whom they are going to teach; and that many of
their omissions and excesses in the administration of the sacraments
and the exercise of the duties of curas are not remedied in the
visitations. That is a great obstacle, and consequently the Indians
suffer considerably in the spiritual and temporal. I have heard that
their superiors are less careful in this, and in the choice of the
persons, than they ought to be. And inasmuch as it is advisable for
the service of God our Lord and for mine, and for the welfare of the
Indians, that the ministers of instruction be such as are required
for this ministry, and that they know the Indians' language, I charge
you strictly that, in accordance with what is decreed and ordained,
you do not permit or allow, in the missions in charge of the orders
in the district of that archbishopric, any religious to come to
perform the duties of cura or to exercise that duty, unless he shall
first be examined and approved by you or by the person who shall be
appointed by you for that purpose, in order to satisfy yourself that
he has the necessary ability, and that he knows the language of the
Chinese or Indians whom he has to instruct. Those whom you shall find,
in the visits that you shall make, who have not the competency, good
qualities, and good example that are requisite, and who do not know
sufficiently the language of the Indians whom they are to instruct,
you shall remove; and you shall advise their superiors, so that they
may appoint others who have the necessary qualifications, in which