As a proprietor of the exchequer the treasury official had the second highest salary in town, job tenure, free housing, and the opportunity to let substitutes do his work. In his connection with the garrison he could count on regular rations, supplies, and a career for his sons. Because he was a regidor of the cabildo, the whole regional economy was laid before him to adjust to his advantage. And beyond all this were the prized “honors, deferences, graces, exemptions, liberties, preeminences, prerogatives, and immunities.” A proprietary official of the royal treasury was as secure financially and socially as any person could be who lived in that place and time. AN323 (Bushnell KC)