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. 36]

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with making and revising the laws of India. For the
same purpose, in my opinion, three persons who had
studied or should study the country would be sufficient here. In such case I would be of the opinion
that they be not allowed to do their work together,
but that each one work alone and present his results.
Another commission ought to be appointed immediately (there would be no harm in those same men
forming it) to examine the codes and present a resume of the points in which they differed essentially.
These would be few and in regard to them the government could take the best resolution.