The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898: 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, Volume LI, 1801–1840

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Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 51, 1801-1840 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

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg.

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English

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DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

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Demarcation line of Alexander VI

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57304

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June 10, 2018

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME LI
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.DOCUMENTS OF 1801–1840
6. 6.EVENTS IN FILIPINAS, 1801–1840
7. 7.REMARKS ON THE PHILLIPPINE ISLANDS AND ON THEIR CAPITAL MANILA, 1819 to 1822 — ADVERTISEMENT — PART I — THE PHILLIPPINES — Receipts — PART II — MANILA — CONCLUSION
8. 8.REFORMS NEEDED IN FILIPINAS — OF THE CAUSES WHICH ANTAGONIZE THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS, AND OF CORRECTIVES FOR THEM — Of the present composition of the divisions of the army — Of the enlargement of the army of the islands — Of the artillery and its dependent branches — Of the forts of Manila and Cavite — Of the piracies of the Moros — Of the large Indian villages — Of the titles to landed property belonging to the Indians and the villages — Of the ecclesiastical orders which are conferred on Indians and mestizos — Of the European religious in Filipinas — On the settlement of banished and vagabond foreigners in the islands — Of the residence of European Spaniards in Filipinas — Of the residencias — Of the selection of all classes of employees for the Filipinas Islands — Of the use of weapons in Filipinas — Of the despatch of assistance to the Filipinas Islands — OF THE CAUSES WHICH OPERATE IN THE BACKWARD CONDITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION, BOTH CIVIL AND ECONOMIC, OF THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS; AND THEIR CORRECTIVE — [ Of the failure of governors and intendants to make reports ] — Of the royal court — Of the administration of justice in general — Of the alcaldes-mayor and military governors of the provinces — Of the taxes — Of the revenue from tobacco — Of the revenue from wine — Of the head-money, or personal tax, from the Chinese — Of the custom-house duties — Of the inter-island trade — Of money — Of the charitable funds established in Filipinas — Of the arsenal of Cavite — Of the agriculture of the Filipinas Islands, in general, and of their principal productions — Of the anfion, or opium — Of the cotton manufactures — Of the means for establishing regular communication and frequent and permanent mercantile relations between España and the Filipinas Islands. — Of the necessity of forming a special code of laws for the Filipinas Islands; and of ordaining that a periodical visitation of that colony be made by officials from the Peninsula.
9. 9.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA
10. 10.APPENDIX
11. 11.REPRESENTATION OF FILIPINAS IN THE SPANISH CORTES — The Cortes of 1810–1813 — The Cortes of 1820–1823 — The Cortes of 1834–1837
12. 12.LIST OF ARCHBISHOPS OF MANILA
13. 13.Table of Contents
14. 14.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations

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