Note_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

The whole tributes belonging to private encomiendas number eighteen

thousand, one hundred and ninety-six and three-fourths, according

to the general statement of accounts of this royal treasury for

the past year of 765. From these the encomenderos collect one peso

for each tribute, and the king two reals; on this account, although

the number of tributes belonging to the crown and to the encomiendas

exceeds two hundred and ten thousand, at ten reals each, only the two

hundred thousand above stated have been considered [in this account];

and their value is placed at two hundred and fifty thousand pesos,

which is the utmost that the natives of these islands pay for the

benefit of the royal treasury.

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