Law LXV_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 duties and freight customs collected in the port

of Acapulco on the Filipinas merchandise, shall not be placed in the

royal treasury of Méjico, but shall be expended in things necessary

to those islands; and the sum lacking [for those necessities] shall

be sent from the treasury of Méjico. The viceroy and the governor of

Filipinas shall send us a particular report for each voyage of the

amount of the duties and freight customs and what must be sent. [Felipe

III--Valladolid, February 19, 1606.]

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