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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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 30 of 55, 1640: 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

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: 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
Author: Aduarte, Diego

Aduarte, Diego

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

should be followed those of Sevilla, Cartagena, Portovelo, Vera Cruz,
and the other ports of the Indias and of these kingdoms, in which royal
laws, decrees, and ordinances have ordained what shall be observed in
these matters; and since these regulations are not annulled or broken
in favor of the islands, it will not be just if they are broken or
annulled to the loss or injury of that colony. For neither do those
vassals merit less than this, nor is their commerce of different
character from the other commerce that belongs to this crown.

Although representations have been made, with more exaggeration
and less in accordance [with the facts] than would be desirable,
of serious infractions of law that have been committed in this
commerce--which representations I have answered at length and
in detail in the said memorial, from no. 94 to no. 99--it may be
observed that, if there are any (which, if I do not admit, I do not
deny), they are not of greater extent nor of different character than
those which are every year experienced in the fleets and galleons
on the India trade-route. These infractions consist in shipping more
merchandise than what is registered, and different commodities from
what are declared, and in carrying back more silver than is shown
by the registers; and there are not and cannot be on the ships of
Philipinas other infractions than the shipment of more goods and
the return of more silver than appear on the registers. Let, then,
the remedy be ascertained which is applied at Sevilla, Cadiz, and
San Lucar, at Cartagena, Portovelo, Vera Cruz, and Habana, and let
the same be applied at Manila and Acapulco. [7] Let guards be placed,
and informers allowed, and goods declared--with rewards to encourage,
and punishments to warn; but it would be a chance success to ascertain
in detail what would be shipped at Sevilla and unloaded in the ports
of the Indias. This would be to establish not order but disorder in
that commerce, as I state in the said memorial, no. 95; and soon the
same thing would be noticed in that of the islands.

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