The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898: 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 52, 1841-1898: 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
1. To set these ends in operation, a Popular Council, a Provincial
Council, and a Supreme Council shall be created.
2. Each Council shall consist of a Chief, a Fiscal, a Treasurer,
a Secretary, and members.
3. The Supreme Council shall consist of the Provincial Chiefs, just
as the Provincial Council shall be composed of the Popular Chiefs.
4. The Supreme Council shall have command of the Liga Filipina,
and shall deal directly with the Provincial Chiefs and Popular Chiefs.
5. The Provincial Council shall have command of the Popular Chiefs.
6. The Popular Council only shall have command of the members.
7. Each Provincial Council and Popular Council shall adopt a name
different from that of their locality or region.
Duties of the Members:
1. They shall pay monthly dues of ten centimos.
2. They shall obey blindly and promptly every order emanating from
a Council or a Chief.
3. They shall inform the Fiscal of their Council of whatever they
note or hear that has reference to the Liga Filipina.
4. They shall preserve the most absolute secrecy in regard to the
decisions of the Council.
5. In all walks of life, preference shall be given to the
members. Nothing shall be bought except in the shop of a member,
or whenever anything is sold to a member, he shall have a
rebate. Circumstances being equal, the member shall always be
favored. Every infraction of this article shall be severely punished.
6. The member who does not help another member in the case of need
or danger, although able to do so, shall be punished, and at least
the same penalty suffered by the other shall be imposed on him.
7. Each member, on affiliation, shall adopt a new name of his own
choice, and shall not be able to change the same unless he become a
Provincial Chief.
8. He shall bring to each Council a service [trabajo; evidently a
service done for the organization], an observation, a study, or a
new candidate.
9. He shall not submit to any humiliation or treat anyone with
contempt.
Duties of the Chief:
1. He shall continually watch over the life of his Council. He
shall memorize the new and real names of all the Councils if he
is the Supreme Chief, and if only a Popular Chief those of all his
affiliated members.
2. He shall constantly study means to unite his subordinates and
place them in quick communication.
3. He shall study and remedy the necessities of the Liga Filipina,
of the Provincial Council, or of the Popular Council, according as
he is Supreme Chief, Provincial Chief, or Popular Chief.
4. He shall heed all the observations, communications, and petitions
which are made to him, and shall immediately communicate them to the
proper person.
5. In danger, he shall be the first, and he shall be the first to be
held responsible for whatever occurs within a Council.
6. He shall furnish an example by his subordination to his superior
chiefs, so that he may be obeyed in his turn.
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