Don Antonio Joseph de Pro[]l, corregidor and justicia mayor [appointed] by his Majesty of the Province of Lampa, Cavana, Cavanilla and part of Canas:

I say that because Don Ramon Basques, interim cacique of the partiality of Urinsaya of the repartimiento of this pueblo, renounced the cacicazgo because finding himself very poor he could not deposit with the punctuality that he ought the Royal Tributes under his charge, and it being certain that in the tercios that have passed during my [tenure] he has been very remiss in said deposits, and [the] said partiality needing to ensure [the election] of [a] cacique so that he not fall behind in the collection of the tributes for the tercio of San Juan of this present year and [he] be able to make the deposit to the Royal Treasury at the time that his Majesty has disposed and ordered, I went to this Pueblo and ordered to assemble all the Indian Principales and plebeians of the said partiality, who found themselves in this Pueblo, in the larger part, because it is the day in which they should hear mass and attend church, [and] I ordered to be said in the general language by Don Diego Lazarte who served in the office of Interpreter, [that] they propose to me three subjects of the said partiality in whom there were the qualities that are required and necessary to obtain said office, to elect from them [the one] who seemed most convenient[.] [T]hey proposed only two, who were Don Ramon Basques who is the said…