Governor and treasury officials were supposed to act jointly on purchases for the garrison. The agent could be an outside merchant bringing a cargo of wine from the Canaries, one of the presidio’s own shipmasters picking up a load of flour in Havana, or a procurador going to Spain at his own expense to execute commissions for the officers. The preponderance of supplies reaching Florida in any given year, however, came in care of the situador, who was, more often than not, one of the treasury proprietors. The hazards of his journey and the payroll preparations for his return made by the other officials have been described in Chapter 5. (Bushnell KC)