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Spain created a permanent annual situado for 150 Florida soldiers

Source: Situado and Sabana #82

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In October 1570, royal orders created a permanent annual situado for the support and munitioning of 150 Florida soldiers. 
...The amounts disbursed by the treasuries to satisfy this obligation were not as constant as the obligation itself. Intervals between disbursements were irregular. Sometimes the situado was calculated on the basis of authorized strength and sometimes on actual. Even had the sums been steady and the intervals even, the situado would still have faced the hazards of transportation. Storms caused losses of specie and supplies that could not always be replaced immediately. Pirates and privateers might pick off a supply ship en route, bringing further losses and delays. 
... Within the regular situado for Florida, funds rose, fell, and replaced one another without affecting the total. Over and above the regular situado, various other funds appeared. Some of these were short-term subventions for a special purpose. Others were authorized supplements or reimbursements for situado funds that were overdrawn. Still others achieved permanence and even independence, becoming secondary situados.
...Changes in the method of calculating what was owed to the presidio for plazas made a substantial difference in the amount of money received. As the Mexico City treasury first figured its obligation, Florida was paid according to the person/months served, which due to attrition and absenteeism was always below the authorized strength, or dotacion, of the garrison.
(Bushnell SS)