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
There was an artillery captain in the said forts of
Terrenate, who received four hundred and eighty pesos
per year. This post has been entirely suppressed
480 p. 0 0
The surgeon of the hospital of Terrenate received six
hundred pesos per year and two rations which amounted
to forty-eight maravedis daily. He was deprived of
only the ration, which is worth sixty-four pesos
three tomins three granos 64 p. 3t. 3g. 0 0
The field captain of the said forts of Terrenate
received three hundred and thirty pesos per year. Now
he receives one hundred and fifty pesos, thus saving
one hundred and eighty 180 p. 0 0
The military notary of the said forts received two
hundred pesos per year. That pay is abolished entirely
200 p. 0 0
There were four substitutes [_entretenimientos_]
in the forts of Terrenate. They were reduced to
opportunities for profit, of various amounts, in order
to distribute that money among half-pay alferezes. Each
substituteship was worth four hundred and fifty pesos,
or a total of one thousand eight hundred pesos. This
was abolished entirely 1,800 p. 0 0
In this camp of Manila, in its presidios, and in
those of Cibu, Oton, Cagayan, Caraga, and Camboanga,
there are five adjutants of the sargentos-mayor. Each
received one hundred and eighty pesos. Now they receive
ninety-six pesos apiece, thus saving eighty-four
pesos on each one, or a total for the five of four
hundred and twenty pesos 420 p. 0 0
There was a field captain in this city of Manila,
who received one hundred and eighty pesos per year,
and a field borrachel who received ninety-six pesos
per year. One person shall serve in these two posts
for one hundred and fifty pesos, thus saving one
hundred and twenty-six pesos 126 p. 0 0
The post of the military notary, which was paid two
hundred pesos per year, has been entirely abolished
and taken from the person who exercised it in this
city of Manila 200 p. 0 0
The chief drummer of this camp of Manila received
one hundred and twenty pesos per year. He receives
the same now, and has been reduced in nothing
0 0 0
The chief gunners of the artillery--in this city of
Manila, he of the fort of Santiago in this city,
and those of Cavite, the island of Hermosa, and
Terrenate--each received three hundred pesos per
year. Now each one receives two hundred and fifty
pesos, thus saving two hundred and fifty pesos on
all five 250 p. 0 0
The apothecary of the royal hospital of Manila received
two hundred pesos per year, and his ration. That
was reduced only by four reals per day, and a total
worth one hundred and eighty-two and one-half pesos
was thus taken from him 182 p. 4t. 0 0
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