What the curas and ministers receive from the Indians_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

1. On account of the three reals which each whole tribute pays to the

curas and ministers for the feasts of Corpus [Christi], the patron

saint, and the monument at Holy Thursday, they receive from the two

hundred thousand tributes the amount of seventy-five thousand pesos;

and [therein] are not included the heads of barangay, the officials

of the villages, and other persons exempt from tribute, who also pay

the said three reals.

2. As for the value of the casual fees and parochial dues, although

it is the general opinion that those same ministers of doctrinas

regulate these at one peso for each tribute, it is estimated that

from this source are received only one hundred and seventy thousand,

four hundred pesos.

The total of these sums is 245,400 pesos.

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 · 第 26 / 108 题