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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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.

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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

more than 37,000 pesos; and the situado sent to both the Philippines
and Marianas must be taken from the Mexican treasury directly,
which will be too heavy a burden for it. The king is reminded of
the poverty of the Philippines in all natural resources save rice,
and their dependence on the Acapulco traffic for money, clothing,
and all other needs save that of food. The recent building of two
small galleons has caused the treasury a great amount of expense,
quite disproportionate to that of the one large vessel which hitherto
had been used for the Acapulco trade--to say nothing of the extra
expense caused by the duplication of crews, officers, and soldiers
which is thus rendered necessary. The smaller ships are less able to
resist either storms or pirates, and the few experienced seamen in
the islands must be divided between them, when they should be massed
in one vessel. Again is mentioned the dependence of the missions,
and the conversion of the heathen, upon the Acapulco trade; the
Indian villages that are more or less christianized now number 457,
with 111,683 families, who are in danger of relapsing into heathenism,
or being converted to Mahometanism, if the missions cannot be kept up.]

88. The Council, on June 14, 1723, agreed that this memorial should
go to the fiscal with all those that came before, with the letters
of the Audiencia, officials, and prelates which had been laid before
the Council on the twelfth of the same month.

89. The consulate of Cadiz, by a memorial presented in the Council
on the twenty-first of the same month and year-being informed of
the petition from Manila requesting that changes be made in the
decree issued on October 27, 1720--asked the Council to order that
the argument recently brought forward by Manila in regard to this be
communicated to them; this having been referred to the fiscal, he was
of opinion that the aforesaid document should be communicated to the
consulate, as had been done in the year 1720 by order of his Majesty;
and the Council agreed to this by a decree of July 12, 1723.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 44, 1700-1736: 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

more than 37,000 pesos; and the situado sent to both the Philippines
and Marianas must be taken from the Mexican treasury directly,
which will be too heavy a burden for it. The king is reminded of
the poverty of the Philippines in all natural resources save rice,
and their dependence on the Acapulco traffic for money, clothing,
and all other needs save that of food. The recent building of two
small galleons has caused the treasury a great amount of expense,
quite disproportionate to that of the one large vessel which hitherto
had been used for the Acapulco trade--to say nothing of the extra
expense caused by the duplication of crews, officers, and soldiers
which is thus rendered necessary. The smaller ships are less able to
resist either storms or pirates, and the few experienced seamen in
the islands must be divided between them, when they should be massed
in one vessel. Again is mentioned the dependence of the missions,
and the conversion of the heathen, upon the Acapulco trade; the
Indian villages that are more or less christianized now number 457,
with 111,683 families, who are in danger of relapsing into heathenism,
or being converted to Mahometanism, if the missions cannot be kept up.]

88. The Council, on June 14, 1723, agreed that this memorial should
go to the fiscal with all those that came before, with the letters
of the Audiencia, officials, and prelates which had been laid before
the Council on the twelfth of the same month.

89. The consulate of Cadiz, by a memorial presented in the Council
on the twenty-first of the same month and year-being informed of
the petition from Manila requesting that changes be made in the
decree issued on October 27, 1720--asked the Council to order that
the argument recently brought forward by Manila in regard to this be
communicated to them; this having been referred to the fiscal, he was
of opinion that the aforesaid document should be communicated to the
consulate, as had been done in the year 1720 by order of his Majesty;
and the Council agreed to this by a decree of July 12, 1723.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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