Law VIII_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.

Many Sangleys are converted to our holy Catholic faith in the Filipinas

Islands, who are married to native Indian women of those islands,

and live in the environs of the city. If a site be given them in the

unfilled lands where they can assemble and form a village, in order to

cultivate and sow the land, in which they are very skillful, they would

become very useful to the community, and would not occupy themselves in

retailing and hawking food; while they would become more domestic and

peaceful, and the city more secure, even should the Sangleys increase

in number. We order the governor and captain-general to enact thus,

and to endeavor to preserve them and to look out for them with the

care that is advisable. [Felipe III--San Lorenzo, August 25, 1620.]

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 35 / 62 题