The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55: 1599-1602; 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
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
The principal thing to be done in order
to start the Indians to do this is, to have them pay the tribute in
the kind which they raise and harvest.
[_In the margin_: "With this report write to the new governor to
call together the Audiencia, the ecclesiastical prelates who are
present in Manila, and the superiors of the religious orders; and
have him communicate with those who could not conveniently go there,
getting their opinion in writing; and have all of them confer as to
what is expedient and ought to be done in this matter--taking into
consideration the fact that the Indians should not be annoyed or
aggrieved; and that their object should be the cultivation of crops
and other things which the land bears; and that for this purpose
the tribute should be paid in kind, and the valuation should be as
equitable as possible. Whatever they may resolve in regard to this
matter, the governor shall cause to be executed, and advise us as to
what he does, seeing to it that the Indians labor and are not idle."]
7. With the reestablishment of the said royal Audiencia, the expenses
of the royal treasury have been increased by more than sixteen
thousand five hundred pesos in the salaries of four auditors and one
fiscal. Wherefore it would be well, were your Majesty so pleased,
to command that the encomiendas or repartimientos of Indians which
may in the future be vacated, up to the amount of ten thousand pesos,
be placed under the royal crown, as an aid to the payment of the said
salaries; and that, until these are so placed, the governors shall not
be able to assign any person an encomienda or repartimiento of Indians.
[_In the margin_: "Have the governor and Audiencia send an information
in this matter, and the archbishop a separate one."]
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