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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Ordinances enacted by the Audiencia of Manila
    (_concluded_.) Francisco Tello, and others; January-July, 1599.
    The hospital for Indians at Manila. Domingo de Santiago and
    Antonio Valerio; July 3.
    Letters from the royal fiscal to the king. Hieronimo de
    Salazar y Salcedo; July 21.
    Letter from the king of Borneo to Governor Tello. Soltan Adil
    Sula; [June?] translated July 27.
    Letters to the king. Francisco Tello; July 14 and August 7.
    Letters to Tello. Felipe III; August 16.



_Sources_: All these documents save one are obtained from MSS. in the
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the second of the king's letters
(August 16) is from the "Cedulario Indico" in the Archivo Histórico
Nacional, Madrid.

_Translations_: The first of these documents is translated by Arthur
B. Myrick, of Harvard University; the second, by Emma Helen Blair;
the third, and part of the sixth, by Robert W. Haight; the fourth,
by James A. Robertson; the fifth, by Norman F. Hall, of Harvard
University, and José M. and Clara M. Asensio; the first letter in
the sixth, by Alfonso de Salvio, of Harvard University.





Ordinances Enacted by the Audiencia of Manila (_concluded_)



_An act ordering the alcaldes-mayor and their officials to observe
the royal tariff._

In the city of Manila, on the seventh of January, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas, in the
collection of taxes by the alcaldes-mayor of the provinces of these
islands, and by their notaries and officials, there is great excess
and disorder, from failing to observe his Majesty's royal tariffs,
whence arise many difficulties and obstacles to the service of God
our Lord, and of his Majesty: therefore, to remedy these evils,
they ordered, and they did so order, that all the alcaldes-mayor,
both now and henceforth, in all of the provinces of these said
islands, shall observe and cause to be observed the royal tariff of
his Majesty and his royal Audiencia; and, in conformity with it,
shall levy and cause to be levied the taxes to them appertaining,
as also shall their notaries and officials--levying on the natives
a third less than on the Spaniards, according to the declaration
thereof in the said tariff; and that each one of them shall have a
copy of this tariff. They shall neither use nor levy the said taxes
by any other tariffs, under penalty of a fine of one hundred pesos
for the treasury of his Majesty and the expenses of justice. By this
act they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez de Almazan_
The licentiate _Zambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

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