[5] Viana to Carlos III, May 1, 1767, Blair and Robertson, L, 126–135.
[6] Delgado, 212–215, reproduced in Blair and Robertson, XVII, 316.
[7] “But,” he continued, “if a man come to these islands with the intention of escaping his natural poverty by humoring the rich and powerful, and even obeying them, the wrongs accruing to the community are incredible” (ibid., 317).
[8] Reforms in Filipinas, April 26, 1827, by Manuel Bernáldez Pizarro, Blair and Robertson, LI, 219; see 213–218.
[9] Montero y Vidal, Archipiélago Filipino, 162–168. “The Spanish régime in Filipinas lasted 333 years.... During that time there were 97 governors—not counting some twenty who served for less than one year each, mostly ad interim, and the average length of their terms of office was a little less than three and one-half years, a fact which is an important element in the administrative history of the islands” (Blair and Robertson, L, 74, note 46).
[10] Recopilación, 3–3–3.
[11] Ibid., 3–11–1 to 3.
[12] Ibid., 3–11–1, 2, 3 to 10; 3–10–3, 11; 5–10–15.
[13] Ibid., 2–2–72, 74, 77; Consulta de 18 de Febrero de 1673 sobre atribuciones de la Junta de Guerra de Indias, A. I., 141–5–8.
[14] Auditor de guerra, “the juez letrado, who has jurisdiction in first instance over cases under the military law, subordinate to the captain or commandant-general of an army or province” (Escriche, Diccionario, I, 369).