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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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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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Financial affairs of the islands, 1766. Francisco Leandro de Viana;
    July 10, 1766.
    Letter to Carlos III. F. L. de Viana; May 1, 1767.
    Anda's Memorial. Simon de Anda y Salazar; April 12, 1768.
    Ordinances of good government. [Compiled by Governors Corcuera
    (1642), Cruzat y Góngora (1696), and Raón (1768).]
    Instructions to the secular clergy. Basilio Sancho de Santa Justa
    y Rufina; October 25, 1771.
    The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768-69. [Compiled from various
    sources.]
    The council of 1771. [Letter by a Franciscan friar;] December
    13, 1771.


Sources: The first of these documents is translated from a MS. copy
(probably official duplicate of above date), in possession of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the second, from Viana's MS. book, Cartas
y consultas, fol. 39v-46, in possession of E. E. Ayer; the third,
from Pardo de Tavera's publication (with many annotations), Memorial
de Anda y Salazar (Manila, 1899), from a copy belonging to James
A. Robertson; the fourth (partly translated and partly synopsized),
from José Felipe Del-Pan's Ordenanzas de buen gobierno de Corcuera,
Cruzat y Raon (Manila, 1891), from a copy in the Library of Congress;
the fifth, from Ferrando's Historia de PP. dominicos (Madrid, 1871),
v, pp. 59, 60, from a copy belonging to E. E. Ayer; the sixth,
compiled from Danvila y Collado, Crétineau-Joly, and Montero y Vidal,
as indicated in the text--the archbishop's decree being obtained
from a printed copy (dated 1770) in the Archivo Historico Nacional,
Madrid; the seventh, from a copy of the original Latin MS. sent to
the Editors by a friend in Germany.

Translations: The text of the third, and of the fourth, is translated
by James Alexander Robertson; the seventh, by Rev. T. C. Middleton,
O.S.A.; the remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.








FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE ISLANDS, 1766


Statements of the amount contributed to his Majesty by the natives
of the Philipinas Islands; that which is spent in their spiritual
administration; what the ecclesiastical estate receives from the
king and from the Indians; and the economies which the royal treasury
can practice, and the augmentations which it can receive, in order to
maintain these dominions with respectable forces, without the necessity
of the royal situado which comes annually from Mexico--and with the
advantage that the royal exchequer can in the future make good the
expenditures incurred during the 202 years which have elapsed since
the conquest of the said islands. By Don Francisco Leandro de Viana, a
student in the old college of San Bartholome el Major of the university
of Salamanca, and formerly rector of the said college; graduated as a
licentiate by the chapter of Santa Barvara; a member of the Council
of his Majesty; his fiscal in the royal Audiencia of Manila, and
promoted to the post of alcalde of criminal cases in that of Mexico.



STATEMENT I

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