Ribas, procurador general for Dominican missions in B.c. writes to virrey requesting that sinodos (wages paid yearly to Dominican order) for 23 missionaries and dotacion (endowment covering expenses incurred in maintaining religious memorials) be paid by real tribunal de Cuentas for previous year. Further documents concern habilitacion de memorias (financial & inventory records kept by each mission) and authorize and confirm that above payments were made. (J. M. Johnson, November 1986).