Law V_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 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

We ordain and order that there shall be no permission to trade or

traffic between Perú, Tierra-Firme, Guatemala, or any other parts of

the Indias, and China or the Filipinas Islands, even though it be by

license of the viceroys, audiencias, governors, or magistrates, under

penalty of confiscation of the merchandise that shall be shipped. The

masters and pilots shall also incur the confiscation of all their

property and ten years in the galleys. [Felipe II--San Lorenzo,

December 18, and February 6, 1591.]

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