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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4. For the transportation of these supplies, the cost to the royal
treasury is moderately estimated at two thousand pesos.
5. For the cash stipends of forty-one religious who are missionaries,
at the rate of one hundred pesos each, his Majesty pays the sum of
four thousand one hundred pesos.
6. For the stipend in rice of a hundred fanegas (each of forty-eight
gantas) to each missionary, at one peso a fanega (reckoned at the
lowest price), his Majesty pays the further sum of four thousand one
hundred pesos.
7. For the supplies of cash and rice which are paid monthly to one
hundred and ninety-two Indians as escorts, who assist thirty-two of
the said missionaries, at the rate for each one of one peso in cash and
twenty-four gantas of rice in the hull (estimated at four reals), these
amount to the sum of three thousand, four hundred and fifty-six pesos.
8. For the supplies of medicine and clothing, and for the support and
comforts of sick religious, the expense is placed at five thousand
pesos.
9. In some villages which contain a small number of tributes, his
Majesty pays the same stipends as in the villages of five hundred
tributes, for which reason what is paid by the king exceeds the amount
which was estimated for the number of two hundred thousand tributes,
by the sum of one thousand pesos.
10. For the stipends which his Majesty pays to the chaplains of the
fortified posts--who usually are the religious who are in charge
of the native villages at the said posts--are paid one thousand,
six hundred and eighty pesos.
11. For the expenses of the religious who come from España to these
islands--who each five years average forty-six and one-half each
year--estimating these at a thousand pesos for each person, the
religious orders receive and the king spends forty-six thousand,
six hundred pesos.
12. For the stipend of the archbishop, the prebends of his church,
and the contribution that is given to it [for its expenses], the
royal treasury expends nine thousand, eight hundred pesos.
13. For the stipends of the three suffragan bishops of Zebu, Nueva
Segovia, and Nueva Cazeres, for the contributions which are made
to these three churches, and for other stipends to their ministers,
his Majesty expends twelve thousand, four hundred pesos.
The total amount of these items is 187,229 pesos, 6 tomins.
Summary
Pesos tomins
The king receives from the Indians, as in 250,000
statement i
The ecclesiastical estate receives from the king,
as in statement ii 187,229 6
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Net balance in favor of his Majesty 62,770 2
STATEMENT III
What should be deducted from the aforesaid 62,770 pesos, 2 tomins,
as necessary expenses of the provinces of these islands.
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