_ 448 _ Pantalião Rebelo wrote this in Lisbon on 8 March 1564. The King. C. I How the Viceroy sent standing orders concerning salaries and their payment to the fortress of Ormuz. In obedience to the above, as soon as I arrived in this city of Goa from Portugal and took over the governorship I at once attended to the question of standing orders for the said fortress of Ormuz in regard to salaried offices and expenditure there. I discussed the matter with D.Gaspar, Archbishop of Goa, and others of His Highness’s officials who had experience of affairs in that State and took into account information I received locally, in order to reduce or put an end to those found to be unnecessary. In pursuit of this, the payments made by the fortress were examined in the memorandum and the estimates of revenue and expenditure, in the areas which His Highness commanded to be given attention in the decree mentioned. With the information I gathered and the opinion of those officials concerning what was necessary for that fortress and what could be excluded, in compliance with His Highness’s intention and for the good and preservation of this State I prepared standing orders, which were completed on
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