The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 2]

152I-I569] RESUME OF DOCUMENTS

135

"Item: It is a condition that, if any slave or
other person flee from the Spanish camp, and should
go inland where the Indians live and inhabit, the
said chiefs and natives be obliged to arrest him
and bring him before the governor; likewise if any
Indian, man or woman, free or slave, come to the
Spanish camp from the Indians, that the said governor promises to send him back and surrender him
-so that neither side defraud or hide anything from
the other.
"Item: It is a condition that the said chiefs and
natives shall be obliged, in selling to the Spaniards
any or all provisions native to their land, and which
they may wish to sell the latter, to demand only the
just prices current among them, and those usually
imposed by them, without advancing the price above
its usual value. This price shall be fixed and understood, now and in future, and there shall be no change
in it. Likewise the said governor shall fix moderate
rates on the articles of barter brought from Spain for
the natives. After these prices are fixed, neither side
may advance them.
"Item: It is a condition that none of the said
natives may, now or at any time, come into or enter
the camp and settlement of the Spaniards with any
weapons of any kind whatever, under penalty that the
person entering with weapons shall be punished by
the governor." In return for these conditions of
peace, thus accepted by the natives, Legazpi promised that, for this first year, they need pay no tribute
or other submission until after their harvests, " for
the king of Castilla had no need of their possessions,
nor wished more than that they recognize him as
lord, since they were his and within his demarcation."