ion of the same, so that I may know when
the said six years are to be in force. And neither one nor the other
shall do anything contrary to this order. [_Blank spaces for place,
day, and month_] one thousand five hundred and ninety.

So that for the period of six years only, the citizens and inhabitants
of the Philippinas Islands and none others, whether in Nueva Espana
or other places, may trade and traffic in China. [44]

[Accompanying this decree is a separate paper reading as follows:
"/ By the crown of Castilla. Provision allowing the people of Manila
to trade in China. His Majesty omitted to sign this decree, because
he wishes your Lordship to summon Pedro Barbosa and Pedro Alvarez
Pereira, and to ascertain from them what is written on the subject
from India from Don Christoval de Mora to Pedro Alvarez. This latter
will show your Lordship all the papers that he has bearing upon this
matter; and after you shall have examined them, you shall advise his
Majesty of your opinion. Sant Lorenzo, July 23, 1590." Without other
signature than a rubrica or flourish.]

The Collection of Tributes in the Filipinas Islands 1591

_Source_: This document is obtained from copies of the original MSS.,
in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla.

_Translation_: It is synopsized, and partially translated, by Emma
Helen Blair; the remaining translation is by Frederic W. Morrison,
of Harvard University, and Norman F. Hall.

The Collection of Tributes in the Filipinas Islands

Memorandum of the Resources of the Hospital of Manila and Its Needs

The royal hospital for the Spaniards possesses about
one hundred taes of gold in the encomienda of Darandum
in Ylocos, which was assigned to the said hospital
by Doctor Sande. DC pesos

It possesses, further, six hundred pesos, which were
granted to it by the president from the encomienda
which fell vacant because of the death of Don Luis
de Sahajosa, in Ylocos. DC pesos

It possesses one thousand five hundred fanegas of rice,
and one thousand seven hundred fowls, assigned by
the president from the tributes of Caruya and Lubao,
which belong to his Majesty. DLXX pesos

It possesses what your Lordship assigned it in the
encomienda of Bondoy Moron, which, it is thought,
will amount to more than eight hundred or nine
hundred pesos. IU pesos

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IIU.DCCLXX pesos

With the above,