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. 24]

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THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

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Geronimo de Fuentes bid at auction [for the position of regidor], and the judges of the auction
knocked it down to him; and after he had paid to
the treasury the price and the half-annat, his title
as regidor was made out in the ordinary form. When
he went to take possession of his post, some regidors
opposed him, appealing to the Audiencia, as is their
custom, with the intention that the royal decrees and
the orders of the government should never be fulfilled; and, in order not to open the door so that those
alcaldes-mayor of the provinces might attempt the
same thing with their successors, I had possession of
his post given to him, reserving to the party concerned his right, safe and in full force.
Your Majesty has prohibited any one from sending money to Macan, and the governors order the
same by their edicts under penalty of confiscation.
Antonio Fiallo gave information of over thirteen
thousand pesos sent him by Bartolome Tenorio,
chief-constable of the court, making a gift to your
Majesty of the portion which pertained to him as
denouncer. And although this cause originated
from the edicts of the government, the auditors tried
it, acquitting the said Bartolome Tenorio -commenting on the suit in examination and review during my absence, without carrying it to the regular
session.
The ordinances governing the cabildo of this city
were given by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, governor
of this island, with the command that none of them
be altered without an order from the governors. One
of them prescribes the form of the election of
alcaldes-in-ordinary. Although time has somewhat
vitiated it, the order that the regidors should give