The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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
Master workmen in the navy-yard: one captain of the Point, yearly,
300 pesos; one alférez of the seamen, 120 p.; one sergeant of the said
men, 90 p.; four corporals, and one watchman, 180 p.; two chief pilots,
240 p.; two assistant pilots, 192 p.; one examiner and inspector of the
royal works of the port, 300 p.; one constable for the storehouse of
provisions, 120 p.; one surgeon, 96 p.; one coxswain of the galley,
120 p.; one chaplain for the galley, 180 p.; one foreman of the
royal iron-works, 300 p.; one foreman of rope-making, 120 p.; one
foreman of the cooper shop, 240 p.; one foreman for the artisans [8]
of the artillery, 120 p.; another overseer of the aforesaid, 30 p.;
one head overseer of the carpenters, 360 p.; another, his assistant,
300 p.; one director of works, 300 p. All, except the father chaplain,
receive rations of rice.
Workmen in the navy-yard: 226 seamen (of whom 16 serve as captains),
with different rates of pay according to their various employments,
and, with corresponding rations of rice; this amounts each year to
5,201 p., 4 t., 6 granos; 166 common seamen, with the same pay and
ration of rice, yearly 2,490 pesos; to the convicts on the royal
galleys are issued rations of 516 cavans of clean rice, which with 22
p., 4 t. for oil for the lanterns, and 300 p. a year for fish, salt,
and vinegar, will be worth 580 p.; eight ropemakers, with rations of
rice and different rates of pay according to their different kinds
of work, amounting yearly to 198 p.; 16 coopers, with different
rates of pay and rations of rice, receive yearly 351 p., 9 granos;
152 men for using the augers, at various rates of pay, including rice,
receive yearly 3,920 p., 4 t.; tool-grinders, at various rates of pay,
receive yearly, including the value of the rice, 594 p.; 305 artisans
[pandayes] (15 of them in the artillery), with various rates of pay,
and the amount of the ration of rice, receive yearly 372 [9] p.; 33
painters (two in the artillery), according to their different rates of
pay, with rations, 495 p.; 135 blacksmiths, with rations and various
rates of pay, amount to 4,644 p.; 31 Lascars, barraqueros, [10] at
different rates of pay, receive annually 709 p.; 16 carpenters, at
various rates of pay, with the value of their rations, receive 1,452
p.; 4 overseers, at various rates of pay, with rations, 300 p.; the
hand-sawyers and the calkers (not only natives, but Sangleys) receive,
according to the day-wages for which they work, without a ration of
rice, wages amounting in one year to 14,922 p., 3 t., 6 granos; the
galagaleros, [11] the Indians who work in repartimiento as ropemakers
and woodcutters, and the raftsmen, at various rates of pay according
to their work, and in rice, receive each year 2,714 p., 1 t.
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