Law XI_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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.

In the city of Manila the custom was established that a certain

number of fowls be given to the president, auditors, and officials of

the Audiencia annually at a price lower than the current rate. The

governor of the Chinese was ordered to make the assessment among

all the Chinese, obliging them to give weekly so many fowls at a

fixed and lower price, and to punish and fine him who did not obey

it. That has caused the Chinese considerable injury. The governor

of the Chinese got as many others at the same price. We order that

no such assessment be made or asked from the Chinese, and that it be

left to each person's own will to buy those fowls that are necessary

to him, and to the Chinese to sell them at the price that they can

and that is current. [Felipe III--Madrid, May 29, 1619.]

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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. · 第 34 / 62 题