[The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 by Emma Helen Blair]@TWC D-Link bookThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 PREFACE 196/239
Consequently, I am not surprised that this should have been passed by for another. [_Marginal note_: "It is well."] 35th.
The number of tributes will be placed in the titles of the encomiendas, what they pay, the value of their products, and in what district they are located, as your Majesty orders. Your Majesty has some encomiendas apportioned to your royal crown, some distance from here and in a district where their products cannot be used.
That is the most serious thing; for the collectors generally defraud [the royal officials] by saying that it was a bad year, and that they collected in money.
If they confess to have collected something in kind, they say that it was too great trouble to bring it; and they sell it there, as they wish--perhaps selling it at retail to one who immediately returns it to them, and, besides this, harassing the Indians.
On account of the distance, that is not often discovered, and less often can it be proved.
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