The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636: 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 26 of 55, 1636: 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 manager of the powder that is made for his Majesty on the other
side of the river shall receive a salary of four hundred pesos per
annum, without anything else.
The manager of the rigging which is made in the province of Balayan
for his Majesty shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty pesos
per annum, without any ration.
The castellan of the fort of Santiago in this city of Manila shall
receive a salary of six hundred pesos per annum, and shall hold
the place by virtue of regular appointment. He who exercises that
office _ad interim_ shall receive one-half that sum as his Majesty
has ordered.
The lieutenant of the said fort of Santiago in this city, who has
hitherto been appointed at a salary of four hundred and twenty pesos,
is now removed and discharged; for there is no need of him in the
said fort, since there is an alferez and a sergeant.
There shall be two infantry adjutants in the forts of Terrenate. One
shall receive a salary of three hundred and sixty pesos per annum,
while the other shall receive ninety-six pesos per annum--the pay of
a simple soldier. They shall receive nothing else.
All the Pampango soldiers who serve in the forts of Terrenate shall
receive annual pay at the rate of forty-eight pesos of eight reals
apiece. They shall be in two companies, which shall be under the
command of the master-of-camp and his sargento-mayor, each of whom
shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty pesos per annum.
The two alferezes of the said Pampango nation shall receive an annual
pay of one hundred and fifty pesos apiece.
Each of the sergeants of the said [Pampango] nation shall receive an
annual pay of one hundred and twenty pesos.
There shall not be an artillery captain in the forts of Terrenate,
for that place is abolished.
The surgeon of the royal hospital for the said forts of Terrenate shall
receive a salary of six hundred pesos per annum, without any ration.
The field captain of the said forts shall receive an annual pay of
one hundred and fifty pesos, without anything else.
The military notary of the said forts, who has hitherto received a
salary of two hundred pesos per annum, shall not receive that sum
from the said day and thenceforth; and the accountant of the said
forts shall under no consideration pay it to him.
The four substitutes [_entretenimientos_], who were reduced to their
[opportunities for] advantage in the said forts of Terrenate, shall
be given nothing by way of additional pay or allowances; and they
shall not be paid in advance from the said day and thenceforth by
the accountant of those forts.
The infantry adjutants of the presidios in the provinces of Cibu, Oton,
Cagayan, Caraga, and Cambuanga, shall serve as simple soldiers for the
annual pay of ninety-six pesos--the same as the simple soldier--without
anything else.
The field _borrechel_ (which means the field captain and borrechel
in one) shall serve for an annual pay of one hundred and fifty pesos,
without anything else.
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