The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50: 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 50: 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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38. [An order given by Cruzat y Góngora, December 24, 1695, to
alcaldes-mayor and corregidors, arranges for the appointment in each
village of several notables, whose business it shall be "to seek
out Indians who commit offenses against God, our Lord, in order to
correct and punish them, and report thereof to the father ministers,
so that they may be dissuaded from their errors, and directed along
the path of salvation." Great care is to be exercised in this, and
those Indians called vilitaos and casonos [115] are to pay tribute and
render personal services. Report must be made as to whether the above
classes still exist, and whether they pay anything to any person for
exemption from tribute, polos, and personal services, and they shall
be punished if of the secular court. [116]]
39. [This law, which was enacted by Cruzat y Góngora, May 14, 1697,
and ordered to be included among the government ordinances, commands
that the two cooks allowed to priests established in a district having
five hundred whole tributes be no longer exempted from tribute, polos,
and personal services. The ordinance enacted by Santiago de Vera,
by which cantors, sacristans, porters, and cooks, are exempt from the
above, shall be revised to read only the first three. This ordinance
is made in pursuance with the decision of the royal Audiencia of
February 22, 1697, that laws xli, and xlii, título xii, book vi of
the Recopilación be obeyed. It was consequently ordered by Cruzat y
Góngora's decree of February 22, 1697, that no village shall against
its will furnish any Indian tanores to the seculars, regulars, or
other ecclesiastical persons, or to the alcaldes-mayor. (See ante,
pp. 203, 204, ordinance 19.) Hence, that this order may be executed,
the present ordinance follows.]
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