Law LIV_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 order that the governors of Filipinas shall not allow slaves to

be sent to Nueva España as a business transaction or for any other

reason--except that, when the governor goes there, his successor may

give him permission to take as many as six slaves with him; to each of

the auditors who shall make the voyage, four; and to other respected

persons, merchants with capital, and officials of our royal treasury

who go and do not return, two. We order the viceroy, alcalde-mayor and

officials of Acapulco, to see to the fulfilment and execution of this

law, and to confiscate the slaves in excess of this number. [Felipe

II--Madrid, April 10, 1597]

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