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his family was reduced apparently to, poverty.34 From one ac-
count we learn, however, that Ra6n left to his family the sum of
500,000 pesos, all of which he obtained from the Chinese, from
the merchants of Manila, and from the Jesuits for various favors.3"
Governor Sim6n Anda y Salazar, one of the most successful
governors the Islands have ever known, was made to, suffer from
the personal malice of the oidores when he gave his last residencia
in 1776.36 Among the offenses which were proved against him
was the exercise of prejudice in the residencia of Oidor Villacorta,
which was conducted under his supervision. The residencia had
been rigorous, due no doubt to, personal enmity existing between
the oidor and the governor, extending over a period of many years.
Governor Anda was fined 4,000 pesos as a price for his. excessive
zeal in the prosecution of the residencia of his predecessor, Ra6n,
who. had friends in the audiencia to, defend and champion his
memory. Anda was also shown to have absolved certain officials
of real hacienda (finance), permitting them to, leave the Islands
without the consent of the audiencia and before their obligations
to, the government had been settled. These and other charges were
proved against him, and they were said to have caused his prema-
ture death in 1776.
Governor Jos6 Basco y Vargas, another very efficient execu-
tive,37 but one who ha.d been opposed throughout his administra-
tion by the audiencia, was heavily fined in 1787 by the oidor
designated to conduct the investigation. The decision of the judge
of residencia was reversed by the Council of the Indies, and Var-
gas' exceptional merits were recognized to the extent of his be-
ing appointed to the governorship of Cartagena, with the rank of
rear-admiral. In taking the residencia of Vargas the audiencia
84Ibid. Also Montero y Vidal, Historiac, II, 254-255.
"'Anda to Manuel de Roda (no date), A. I., 106-4-22.
8Montero y Vidal, II, 257-258. Anda spent an earlier term of service in
the Philippines. He first came to the islands in 1761 as oidor. He con-
ducted the defense of Manila in 1763, 'acting ,as temporary governor, and
was accordingly obliged to submit to residencia on giving up his office in
1764. His conduct was approved, .and he received high honor and promo-
tion at the court, being advanced to membership in the Council of Castile.
"3Basco y Vargas occupies much the same position in the history of the
Philippines as does Josef de Galvez in that of New Spain. It was he who
recommended and inaugurated in the Philippines the reforms .of the in-
tendancy in 1785-7.266
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