Law XXVIII_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 viceroys, presidents, and auditors, and all other officers of

justice shall make efforts to find all those who shall have been sent

to Filipinas to reside during the time of their obligation, who have

remained in Nueva España and other parts of their jurisdiction, and

shall force them with all rigor to go to reside in those islands,

proceeding against their persons and properties and executing

the penalties that they shall have incurred. The fiscals of our

Audiencia in Manila shall plead what is advisable in regard to the

aforesaid. [Felipe II--Madrid, February 20, 1596.]

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