Law II_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 trade, commerce, and navigation from the Filipinas to Japon shall

be made by the citizens of the former islands, and the Japanese shall

not be allowed to go to the islands. On the merchandise carried

in the ships despatched on the account of our royal treasury, no

less freight charges shall be collected than those caused in the

ships of private persons, so that the cost of the merchandise may

be assured. If there should be any inclination or substance in this

trade, so that the duties may be paid and our treasury relieved of

a portion of its costs and expenses that be paid from them, we order

that they be collected and paid. [Felipe III--Segovia, July 25, 1609.]

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