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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As here presented, the ordinances are translated partly in full and
partly in synopsis, the latter indicated by brackets.
[111] The leaders indicate that the text is illegible or lacking,
because of the poor condition of the MS. (See Del-Pan, p. 117, note).
[112] Crawfurd calls attention (Dict. Indian Islands, p. 345) to
the resemblance between the Philippine barangay and "our Anglo-Saxon
tithings and hundreds."
On the civic administration of Philippine communities, see appendix
in Jagor's Reisen, pp. 298-302.
[113] The Tagálog equivalent of polla, a chicken or young hen.
[114] Filipinos who serve as domestic servants.
[115] Noceda and Sanlucar's Tagálog Vocabulario defines casonó as
"a servant or companion who lives at home;" but it does not contain
the word bilitao. This apparently is compounded from bili, "to buy,
or sell," and tauo or tao, "man."
[116] At this point the ordinances proper of Corcuera, revised by
Cruzat, end. The revision was signed by Cruzat at Manila, October 1,
1696; and he orders alcaldes, chief justices, corregidors, and war
captains, to obey strictly all of the regulations contained in it,
under penalty of the punishments and fines mentioned therein. A copy
of the ordinances is to be sent to each official, and a certified
copy in triplicate to the supreme Council of the Indies. The following
ordinances (39-61) are in the form of decrees of the Manila government
or of royal decrees, and contain many orders quite foreign to the
mission of provincial chiefs, and, consequently, out of place in
the ordinances. The last one is of the time of Raón (1766), who in
1768 revised the ordinances of Arandía. (See Del-Pan's introduction,
p. 22, and p. 153 of the ordinances of Corcuera and Cruzat.)
[117] Noceda's (also Santos's) Tagálog Vocabulario gives compra
(Spanish, meaning "purchase") as the equivalent of the native word
bandala, meaning a compulsory purchase by the government of rice or
other products from the natives, who evidently adopted the Spanish
word directly. (See Vol. XLVII, p. 119.)
[118] These ordinances are published also in Autos acordados
(Manila, 1861), i, pp. 29-71; and in Rodriguez San Pedro's Colección
legislativa, i, p. 245.
[119] When the ordinances were printed in 1801, the superiors of three
of the religious orders immediately petitioned for the revocation of
ordinances 16, 18, and 46, because they contained ideas injurious to
the ecclesiastical estate. (Del-Pan, in his introduction, p. 7.)
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