13. The amount of the tithes and vacancies was, in fact, ascertained in the execution of the decree with the aid of his Excellency, Don Diego Camacho. It was found that the tithes, as a general rule, are not collected in these islands; and that those which are received regularly from some estates, do not exceed the sum of four hundred pesos per annum, and they are received by the cathedral church through a concession. The vacancies not proceeding from the products of curacies, could only be in the allowances with which his Majesty aids the bishops for their suitable support from the effects of his royal patrimony, exempt from the obligations by which the tithes, as ecclesiastical incomes, are accompanied, because of vacancies, and are to be converted into benefit for the new prelate, church, and pious uses. However, investigation was made of the vacancies of such stipends, and it was found uniformly in the certifications of the royal officials that they were converted as though they were tithes; and that they were applied to the holy church for its building fund, and for the aid of the archbishops and bishops who had come to these islands, as an aid in the pontifical expenses, and to furnish their household furniture and other things in a fitting manner. Only one vacancy of one of the bishoprics was then found without pay warrant, but its warrant was expected immediately. And although this and the subsequent vacancies were obtained in three payments, those payments were already applied to the expenses of the professors, both those which came from the royal treasury and those of the church fund, and maintenance of such college seminary, which necessarily became perpetual without redintegration being made in whole or in part.
14. The conditions of the first foundation were changed, very much against the intention of his Majesty, by the arrival at Manila of the patriarch, Don Carlos Thomas Maillard de Tournon. The right reverend Camacho came to terms with that gentleman, who took a hand in that college, and altered its foundation, by increasing it with foreign seminarists without the intervention of the vice-patron. Several alms which had been collected were applied to the maintenance of seventy-two collegiates who were to be of all nationalities. A new and showy building was provided for on a site opposite the archiepiscopal palace. For this enterprise was also applied a portion of certain alms which had been collected by Abbot Sidoti, amounting to twelve thousand pesos, which were given into the care of the financial board of the Misericordia, in order that they might yield a suitable return, and their products in the investments realized were applied by the said abbot to various pious purposes, one of them being that of the seventy-two seminarists. His consideration for the apostolic visitor and patriarch, and for the powers promulgated for all by the Apostolic See, reprehensibly restrained Señor Zabalburù in the performance of his duties.