The Colony Survives through Expedients: Misapplication of Funds Abuses within the subsidy system created insoluble problems for the governor, whose suggestions, complaints, entreaties, detailed plans, or angry letters failed to move his superiors in Spain or New Spain. AN182 The situado continued to arrive irregularly. Supplies were in poor condition, prices were high, and shortages in the yearly grant were commonplace. All of this forced the governor to resort to expedients to sustain those serving under him. To pay his soldiers and keep their families alive, he had to misapply funds allocated to Florida for building or other special purposes and use this money for salaries or food. Not long after the turn of the century, the governor turned to this expedient in order to keep his colony from perishing. In 1702… (Tepaske GSF)