Law XLIV_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

The apportionment of the permitted amount of two hundred and fifty

thousand pesos, conceded to the inhabitants of the Filipinas

Islands, must be made among them, and the whole amount must be

registered. Endeavor shall be made to have less than one third part

return in gold; and the governor shall prevent and take precautions

against any fraud or deceit, and shall take what measures he deems

expedient. This also we charge upon the viceroy of Nueva España in

whatever pertains to him. [Felipe II--Madrid, January 11, 1593.]

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