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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER II
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Of the ministers and religious instruction in the islands,.
and those who have been converted to our holy Catholic faith, and those who pay tribute.
The island of Luzon, in the archbishopric and the two bishoprics, has fifty-nine encomiendas, and in that of Nueva Segovia, which is the most northerly, there are twenty-six; in that of Camarines, which is the most easterly of the islands, there are thirty--in all, one hundred and fifteen.

In the bishopric of Cibu there are seventy-one, which make, in all, one hundred and eighty-six encomiendas of Indians.

They comprise 130U938 tributarios in all; each tributario includes husband and wife, and thus at least four persons are reckoned, including children and slaves (as they have no others to serve them except slaves); there are, then, 523U752 Christians in these encomiendas.

There are assigned to the royal crown 33U516 tributarios, and the rest are assigned and granted to deserving soldiers.


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