The King grants bishops tithes and binds them to keep Taíno mining
… Likewise, that the bishops take no tithes of gold and silver, pearls, or precious stones, but of the other things, in conformity with the bull of the Pope, and that not in money but in produce, as was taken in Castile, and that neither for this cause nor for any other, directe or indirecte, would they turn the Indians away from what they were then doing to extract the gold, but rather would encourage them and counsel them to serve better than until now in the extracting of the gold, telling them that it is to make war on the infidels, and the other things that they should see could profit to make the Indians work well. Likewise, that the archbishop of Seville, as metropolitan, or his Fiscal, may be and reside in any of the said bishoprics and exercise his office, and that the metropolitan may not appoint as official any of the Prelates of the said islands. Likewise, that no person may extract gold or bring persons to extract it unless they are subject to the jurisdiction of Their Highnesses and to the ordinances kept there, and pay the duties that laymen pay. …