Certain sum of money from the paz y guerra account was being spent on maintaining prisoners of war in 1789 at same time that the account was being clarified; claim by Nava that Cortes had failed to count costs of maintaining prisoners of war that continued in 1789 when he was reconciling paz y guerra account for Bahia, asking for those funds to be returned to Bahia; letter from Monterrey inquiring as to why the real tribunal y audencia has taken so long in finishing work on the documentation relative to the paz y guerra accounts for Texas and Coahuila; real tribunal requests that Nava prepare report on costs made to this account for the year 1788; Gondra writes that delay in processing account due to death of Cabo-Franco and sickness of Medina, to the costs mentioned by Nava earlier is added gifts to Lipanes, gives progress made so far on these accounts for several areas, goes into the history of the account in terms of its establishment and motives (covered in detail in expediente 3 of this reel), attests that no mention is made on documents that he is examining prisoner and gift costs; issue is explained by Gondra by pointing to the date of incurred costs and timing of examination of the accounts, cites verification by means of written proof of costs as way to resolve this issue; letter from real tribunal informing virrey that after examining the paz y guerra account the 368 pesos that Nava held were still in the account for Bahia are not there; orders to communicate this information to Nava allowing him opportunity to submit proof in order to substantiate his earlier claim. (O. Velez, October 1989)