[The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 by Emma Helen Blair]@TWC D-Link bookThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 CHAPTER V 5/69
0U500 One secretary of mines and registries, who serves on a salary of a major official of the office of accounts, with 400 pesos; and one minor official with 150, which amount to.
0U550 Two secretaries, one of war and one of magazines, with 200 pesos apiece per year of salary, and rations for the magazines secretary.
0U400 One engineer and one surgeon, with 600 pesos each year, amounting to 1200 pesos.
1U200 Two Pampango captains, with 120 pesos; two ensigns, with 96 pesos; two sergeants, at 72 pesos; four drummers, two fifers, two shield-bearers, two standard-bearers, at 48 pesos each; and 200 soldiers, at 48 pesos of salary per year, amounting to 10717 pesos.
10U717 A Spanish smith, with a salary of 300 pesos per year, and one Indian with 48 pesos; another, with 42 pesos; ten others, with 30 pesos; one keeper of arquebuses with 42 pesos and all his rations, which will be mentioned in their place, amounting in money to 732 pesos 0U732 Two Spanish carpenters and 20 Indians--the Spaniards with 300 pesos each per year, and the 20 Indians at 48 pesos and their rations--the money amounting to 1560 pesos 1U560 One Spanish stonecutter, with 300 pesos; and twelve Indians at 24 pesos, amounting yearly to 588 pesos 0U588 Two calkers and one cooper, Spaniards, at 300 pesos each per year, amounting to 900 pesos 0U900 A hundred Indian pioneers, at 48 pesos each per year and rations, amounting to 4800 pesos 4U800 An alguazil of the royal exchequer, at 150 pesos per year 0U150 Ten religious, of the Society of Jesus and the Order of St.Francis, and the vicar, at 100 pesos; and thirty fanegas of rice each, the money amounting to 1000 pesos 1U000 Commander, captains, pilot, masters, and other officials of the two galleys, besides rations, have each year in salaries 5643 pesos, 4 tomins 5U643 Four substitutes, [56] who are about the person of the governor of those islands, at 30 ducados of eleven reals per month each, amounting each year to 1U980 Each year presents are taken to the king, his son, and the chiefs, worth 2000 pesos 2U000 The hospitals expend each year in medicines, food, cloth, and service more than 10000 pesos 10U000 There must be used powder, balls, iron, steel, pikes and boats for minor service, costing for their manufacture or construction more than 10000 pesos 10U000 The expenses of the vessels which bring reenforcements; the galleys which are kept there; the salaries of the captains, pilots, masters, officers, and sailors; the careening; and other smaller expenses for their construction and voyages, amount each year to more than 40000 pesos 40U000 A purveyor, who is present in the province of Pintados, earns each year 700 pesos of salary; and there are others--commissioners, a storekeeper, and a secretary--in all amounting to 1300 pesos per year 1U300 The rice, wine, meat, fish, vegetables, and other minor articles used by the persons who are supplied with rations--as are the sailors, artillerymen, carpenters, smiths, pioneers, commanders, and rowers of the galleys; the religious, and others--will amount in Terrenate to more than twenty thousand pesos per year 20U000 218U372 Beside what has been mentioned, attention must be given to what has been spent on the fleets which have been collected since the year one thousand six hundred and six, when Don Pedro de Acuna recovered it--both in ships and on casting [of artillery], soldiers' hire, and that which has been lost at different times, which has amounted to a large sum each year; and little or no income has been secured from the Malucas, for in nine years they have not brought in 20U pesos.
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