EIGHTEENTH ABUSE_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

It is an abuse that the alcaldes in the provinces find it necessary

to yield to the father in whatever the latter desires (this is always

against royal authority) against the Indian and the Spaniard; and, if

the alcalde does not thus act, that moment the fathers rise against

him and prove, in part or in all, the following charges: "he lives

in concubinage, is a drunkard, a thief, and does not observe his

duties toward the church," even though he be an anchorite. For the

father causes the Indian to make depositions as he wishes, and if the

Indian does otherwise, there are lashes. By this may be understood the

doctrine which is taught to those ignorant people, and the condition

in which the administration of his Majesty's justice and authority is.

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