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404 colonels and lieutenant-colonels, and the inspector might select the other officers with the viceroy's sanction. The only able-bodied men excluded from the ranks were negroes and Indians. The castas, or various grades of mixed breeds, might be admitted to the number of one third in each company, and regiments of any certain color might be formed, The different localities were to pay for the clothing and other needed articles, the government furnishing arms.

The two companies of the viceroy's guard were mustered out of service, and the palace was thereafter guarded by the troops of the garrison, the halberdiers being retained. Dissension soon arose between the viceroy and General Villalba, the latter assuming independent powers, in which he seemed to have been upheld by some of the officers brought by him from Spain, and even failed to pay the viceroy honors that were due him. His course was disapproved by the crown, and an order issued for him and the mariscales Zayas and Ricardos to return to Spain,