[The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 by Emma Helen Blair]@TWC D-Link bookThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 CHAPTER tenth 66/177
Moreover, besides the above reason, the amount collected from this source for your Majesty is very small.
Your Majesty will order what you shall be pleased to have done in this matter. Section 9.
[50] By virtue of a royal decree of your Majesty, the bishop added another parish priest to the benefice of this cathedral church, so that there are now two priests and a sacristan.
Orders have been given that their salaries shall be paid from the royal exchequer, in conformity with another royal decree lessening the amount to be secured from the tithes. Section 10.
Your Majesty ordered a royal decree to be issued, commanding us to send a report on the recommendation made by the bishop of these islands, that it is expedient that a brief be procured from his Holiness, in order that the authority which he granted to the bishop in the _foro interior_ for twelve years be also granted to him in the _foro esterior_.
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