Pesos tomins_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 savings and increases of revenue contained

in this statement amount to the sum of 1,157,139 5

Those contained in statement v amount to 155,693 6

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Total 1,312,833 3

Accordingly, the savings and the increases mentioned in the two

foregoing statements are worth to the royal exchequer the sum of

one million, three hundred and twelve thousand, eight hundred and

thirty-three pesos, three reals; and even if it be reckoned at no

more than a million, this annual product will be more than enough to

maintain the islands with respectable forces, and to make good the

expenses hitherto caused to the royal revenue, without the necessity

of increasing the royal tribute from the Indians. And, in case it

be thus increased, in the following statement will be set forth the

value of the said increase.

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