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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 - 1599-1602 by Unknown
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orders to be observed in everything.

_Laws._--First, we ordain and command that none of the said Chinese
Sangleys, or any other persons whatsoever, shall commit or practice
the said abominable sin against nature, or try to commit it. Whoever
shall do so shall incur the penalty of being burned alive by fire,
beside having all his goods confiscated to the treasury of his Majesty.

_Item_: We ordain and command that none of the said Sangleys shall
dare to make or coin any sort of silver or gold money, or of any other
metal, nor shall they clip or scrape money already made, or make use
of it, under the penalties contained in the above ordinance.

_Item_: We ordain and command that none of the aforesaid shall cohabit
or have carnal intercourse with any [Spanish?] woman or Christian
Indian woman, under the penalty that, in such case, he shall incur
a punishment of two hundred lashes and ten years in the galleys,
as criminals sentenced to row, without pay, and of the confiscation
of one-half his property, to be applied as above stated.

Further, we ordain and command, that none of the said Sangleys,
for any reason or consideration, shall buy from negro slaves or
freemen, Indians or mulattoes, any gold jewels, trinkets, garments,
or any other articles which they sell; but when the said Sangleys go
to them, they shall arrest them and take them before the magistrate,
under penalty that whoever shall disobey this decree shall fall under
and incur the penalties incurred by robbers, and said penalties will
be rigorously executed on their persons and goods.

And in order that the aforesaid shall be observed and executed without
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