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
7. He shall see to the very last member, the personification of the
entire Liga Filipina.
8. The omissions of the authorities shall be punished with greater
severity than those of the simple members.
Duties of the Fiscal:
1. The Fiscal shall see to it that all comply with their duty.
2. He shall accuse in the presence of the Council every infraction
or failure to perform his duty in any member of the Council.
3. He shall inform the Council of every danger or persecution.
4. He shall investigate the condition of the funds of the Council.
Duties of the Treasurer:
1. He shall enter in a ledger the new names of the members forming
the Council.
2. He shall render strict monthly account of the dues received,
noted by the members themselves, with their special countermarks.
3. He shall give a receipt and shall have a note of it made in the
ledger in the hand of the donor, for every gift in excess of one peso
and not over fifty.
4. The Popular Treasurer shall keep in the treasury of the Popular
Council, the third part of the dues collected, for the necessities of
the same. The remainder, whenever it exceeds the sum of ten pesos,
shall be delivered to the Provincial Treasurer, to whom he shall
show his ledger, and himself writing in the ledger of the Provincial
Treasurer the amount delivered. The Provincial Treasurer shall then
give a receipt, and if it is in accordance with the accounts, shall
place his O. K. in the ledger of the other. Like proceedings shall
follow when the Provincial Treasurer delivers funds in excess of ten
pesos to the Supreme Treasurer.
5. The Provincial Treasurer shall retain from the sums handed to
him by the Popular Treasurer one-tenth part for the expenses of the
Provincial Council.
6. Whenever any member desires to give the Liga Filipina a sum in
excess of fifty pesos, he shall deposit the sum in a safe bank, under
his vulgar name and then shall deliver the receipt to the Treasurer
of his choice.
Duties of the Secretary:
1. At each meeting he shall keep a record of proceedings, and shall
announce what is to be done.
2. He shall have charge of the correspondence of the Council. In case
of absence or incapacity, every authority shall name a substitute,
until the Council name one to fill his place.
Rights of the members:
1. Every member has a right to the moral, material, and pecuniary
aid of his Council and of the Liga Filipina.
2. He may demand that all the members favor him in his trade or
profession whenever he offers as many guaranties as others. For this
protection, he shall transmit to his Popular Chief his real name
and his footing, so that the latter may hand it to the Supreme Chief
who shall inform all the members of the Liga Filipina of it by the
proper means.
3. In any want, injury, or injustice, the member may invoke the whole
aid of the Liga Filipina.
4. He may request capital for an enterprise whenever there are funds
in the treasury.
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