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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: de Bobadilla Governor of these islands and of the main
land, and we command you, cavaliers and all persons whatever,
to give him that obedience which you do owe to us.''
And to him, the new Governor: ``Whomsoever you find
guilty, arrest their persons and take over their goods.'' And,
``If you find it to our service that any cavaliers or other
persons who are at present in these islands should leave
them, and that they should come and present themselves
before us, you may command it in our names and oblige
it.'' And, ``Whomsoever you thus command, we hereby
order that immediately they obey as though it were ourselves.''
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