As officers of a treasury associated with a presidio, the royal officials had two other duties that would not have been given them elsewhere: keeping the personnel records of the garrison and accounting for what was stored in the warehouses and arsenal. AN152 It was the accountant, as records specialist, who performed the act of “entering and erasing plazas” from the muster given him monthly by the governmental notary. [Note 18: Nicolas Ponce de Leon 7/3/1632; Juan de Cueva 1/9/1631, enclosed with Gov. Rodriguez de Villegas 12/27/1630] He maintained the individual service records in which every man’s career was recorded from induction to retirement, with supplementary material rich in information about Indian wars, pirate attacks, explorations, salvage, and sea voyages. Officers tried to influence what went into their files. (Bushnell KC)