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The King ordered Benavides to determine the FL boundaries with or without SC's participation

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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After the reply of the Duke of Newcastle had been examined in the Council of the Indies, together with the report mentioned, which he enclosed with the antecedents of the matter, by the advice of the fiscal his Catholic Majesty resolved to repeat to the governor of Florida, with date at Madrid of June 22, 1725, the orders that he had given in the despatches before quoted, of June 10 and August 8, 1724. He commanded him to execute the terms of these orders without the slightest omission, and directed that in case the court of England had not given orders to the governor of Carolina, or that the latter should not concur in the arrangement of boundaries agreed upon, he should summon him on his part to execute the said demarkation. To put the demarkation into effect he ordered him to go, with the assistance of qualified persons, and carry out the measures himself; and if it should result that the fort was situated in the dominions of his Catholic Majesty, he was to call upon the Governor of Carolina to demolish it, without agreeing in any manner whatsoever to the alternative proposed by the court of London for the equivalent of the said fort.