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
_Increase_. There ought to be ninety-six corporals in
all the said companies, each company of one hundred
men having four, but since there are no companies
that contain that number, the number is adjusted at
ninety corporals. Each one has received an increase
of twelve pesos per year, in addition to the sum
that he formerly received, because of their arduous
duties. That increase amounts to one thousand and
eighty pesos 1,080 p. 0 0
There were a like number of shield-bearers in the
twenty-four companies, who received ninety-six pesos
per year apiece. They were entirely abolished by the
revision, and the captains shall keep them at their
own cost. That saves two thousand three hundred and
four pesos 2,304 p. 0 0
The commander of the ships which are despatched
annually to Nueva Espana received three thousand
Castilian ducados per year. Now he receives by
the revision three thousand pesos, thus saving one
thousand one hundred and twenty-five pesos. In regard
to rations, he receives the same now as then
1,125 p. 0 0
The admiral of the said ships received two thousand
Castilian ducados per year. Now he receives two
thousand pesos, thus saving seven hundred and fifty
pesos. In regard to rations, he receives the same
now as then 750 p. 0 0
One hundred pesos per year have been reduced by the
revision from the two hundred pesos that each of the
two notaries of the said ships formerly received
100 p. 0 0
A like sum has been taken from the pay of the two
stewards, in the same manner 100 p. 0 0
A like sum has been reduced from the pay of the
water-guards, in the same way
100 p. 0 0
The two notaries and the two stewards of the ships
that make the voyage to Terrenate and one notary
and one steward of the ship that sails to the island
of Hermosa, have been reduced for like sums in the
same way 300 p. 0 0
_Increase_. In the office of the controllership,
two clerks were added with pay of ninety-six pesos
per year, a total of one hundred and ninety-two pesos
192 p. 0 0
The places of chief clerk and second clerk of the
pay-office, of which the revision makes mention,
have neither been increased nor diminished.
_Increase_. In the said pay-office, two more clerks
were added, with one hundred and fifty pesos apiece
per year 300 p. 0 0
_Increase_. In the said office of the factor, another
clerk was added to the force, with a salary of one
hundred and fifty pesos per year
150 p. 0 0
_Increase_. The chief office was given another clerk
at the same and aforesaid pay 150 p. 0 0
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