Titles were equally standard in format. There were two of them: one to office in the treasury and the other as regidor of the cabildo. The treasury title addressed the appointee by name, calling him the king’s accountant, treasurer, or factor-overseer of the provinces of Florida on account of the death of the former proprietor. After a brief description of the responsibilities of office the appointee was assured that in Florida “they shall give and do you all the honors, deferences, graces, exemptions, liberties, preeminences, prerogatives and immunities and each and every other attribute which by reason of the said office you should enjoy.” The salary was stated: invariably 400,000 maravedis a year from the products of the land. [Note 14: Many titulos are preserved in the Registros.] This was the only regular income the official was due, for municipal office in Florida was unsalaried. If the appointee was already in Florida, salaried time began the day he presented himself to be inducted into office; otherwise, on the day he set sail from San Lucar de Barrameda or Cadiz. By the time the crown withdrew coverage for travel time in 1695, Florida treasury offices had long been creole-owned. [Note 15: Recopy 6/16/1593; Thomas Menendez Marquez and Joachin de Florencia 12/6/1693; Royal officials 4/6/1696. It was customary in the 16th century to allow three months travel time to some posts in the Indies.] The one thing that never appeared in an officials titles was a time limit. His appointment, “at the king’s pleasure,” was understood to be for life. The governor, by contrast, had a term of five or six years. He could threaten, fine, suspend, even imprison a proprietor, but he could not remove him. And when the governor’s term expired and his residencia (judicial inquiry) came up, every official in the treasury would be waiting to lodge charges. AN427 (Bushnell KC)