The situados of New Spain — Mexico's treasury as paymaster of Havana, San Juan, Santo Domingo, Florida, Louisiana and Manila

Before any of its own charges were met, the treasury of New Spain paid out more than three million pesos a year to places that did not raise enough revenue to defend or govern themselves: Havana, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Florida, Louisiana, the Marianas and the Philippines. The treasury's own compilers itemised every consignment in 1791 and printed the arithmetic, including the larger sum sent the other way, to Spain.