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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13. [Since the products of the royal bandala or purchase are to be
brought to the royal magazines, another chart, expressing the prices
paid in such purchases, transportation charges between villages, and
sea freights to the royal magazines, shall be made for each province,
in order to avoid fraud and confusion.]
14. The pay of their stipends to the curas and ministers of the
missions, as well as the [payment for the] other ordinary expenses of
each province, shall be made by the alcaldes-mayor, according to the
instructions of the royal officials, and the orders of the superior
government, and they shall be bound literally by those orders.
15. [The payment of the stipends of the curas and missionaries in
money and not in kind is advised, in order to avoid all contentions
such as are wont to occur between them and the alcaldes-mayor. The
former always collect in the method most convenient to themselves,
which is often to the prejudice of the royal treasury. Since there is
no longer a reason, as at the beginning, for paying the stipends in
both money and kind, law xxvi, título xiii, book i, of the Recopilación
ought to be observed, according to which the stipend should be paid in
money. The practice of paying the stipends in the villages hitherto
practiced, and not compelling the curas and missionaries to have
recourse to the royal treasury (according to law xix, of the above
título and book), should be continued.]
16. [The alcaldes-mayor shall send annual reports to the superior
government whether the sacrament has been administered in their houses
to sick Indians, whether this has been neglected by any curas and
missionaries, or whether the latter have caused the sick to go to the
churches to receive it. If they have been thus remiss, the stipends
shall not be given them, and if paid them by the alcaldes-mayor shall
not be credited to them (which is in accordance with law xxvi, título
xiii, book i, of the Recopilación, and the royal decree of June 11,
1704, which is, however, not to be observed in general).]
17. [The Indians are to have the administration, teaching, and
instruction necessary, but are not to be molested and vexed unjustly
by the curas and missionaries (see Recopilación, título xiii, book
i). They must not be assessed anything, or such assessment shall be
discounted from the stipends of the curas and missionaries.]
18. [In view of the poverty of the royal treasury, and the opulence
of the curas and missionaries, who receive excessive stipends--since,
although a village may have but one parish priest, he may collect
two, three, four, or more stipends, according to the number of
tributes--it is ordered that but one stipend be paid in each village,
notwithstanding its size (in the same manner as if it had only five
hundred tributes): The money saved thereby shall be paid out to the
benefit of the public cause.]
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