The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Financial affairs of the islands, 1766. Francisco Leandro de Viana; Manila, July 10, 1766. 77 Letter from Viana to Carlos III. F. L. de Viana; Manila, May 1, 1767. 118 Anda's Me...

4. In the aforesaid paper of suggestions, and in the report of June 5, 760, the reasons were set forth why the king should not pay the cost of the missions which come from Españ...

must be paid, as well as the food purchased from them, at the prices of the tariff. If the Indians are forced to buy the products that they sell, they shall buy them at suitable...

21. [Neither the alcaldes-mayor nor any other person may, without special government permission, spend anything from the communal funds, outside of the common obligations of eac...

35. [This ordinance cites and reiterates ordinance 42 of the old regulations (q.v., ante, p. 219), and is in accordance with law xliii, título vii, book i of the Recopilación.]

matters. The government secretary shall send a list of all fees that may be received to all the provinces, which shall be translated into the native languages and published by p...

44. [Because of the great losses resulting from loans to the Indians, all loans in excess of five pesos are prohibited. The Indians, through their great carelessness, and indole...

68. [Alcaldes-mayor, corregidors, and other officials are allowed (by a royal decree of July 17, 1751) to trade in their provinces by reason of a payment made to the government,...

84. [When the reduction of the villages is completed, the gobernadorcillo of each village shall take charge of the collection of the tribute, as compensation for which he shall...

any usurpation of their office. All measures advocated by the father ministers in behalf of the Indians, spiritually and temporally, shall be presented to the alcaldes-mayor and...

under Carlos III over the royal prerogatives, the measures for canonizing the venerable Palafox, [137] ecclesiastical amortization, the banishment of the inquisitor-general by t...

of the expulsion;" chapter iii, "The monitory decree of Parma," a brief issued by Clement XIII on January 30, 1768, which attempted to assert the temporal power of the pope; [13...

[In the appendix to tomo iii are various important documents, presented in full, as follows: Official report to Carlos III of the proceedings on April 30, 1767, of the Council c...

Montero y Vidal says (pp. 380-382) that the English attacked Zamboanga (1803) on the way to Balambangan, but were repulsed with great loss. They had at the latter place three sh...

[40] Mas says (Informe, i, part ii of "Historia," p. 37): "Marquina was accused of selling offices through the agency of a woman; he suffered a hard residencia, and was not perm...