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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 - 1624 - Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing by Various
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_Item_: If you know whether the said your minister has concealed any
public or notorious sin of his parishioners, that has come to his
notice, and has not endeavored to have it remedied by the persons
who can remedy it.

_Item_: If you know whether the said your minister has not looked
after the property of the church, the silver, and ornaments, and
everything belonging to it; and whether any property has been lost
by his carelessness and negligence.

_Item_: If you know whether the said minister, in the public sins
that have come to his notice and that he has punished, has condemned
the sinners to pecuniary fines, or something of value, such as wax,
cloth, or other things; and whether he has failed to apply the said
fines to those to whom they belong, in accordance with his Holiness's
brief and his Majesty's decrees.

_Item_: If you know whether the fiscals have performed their duty
poorly; or whether they live in sin, or are dishonest, or they conceal
sins or concubinage; or whether they receive bribes; or whether with
their authority as fiscal they have annoyed the Indians, or have
taken rice, fowls, or other things at a less price; or whether they
have imposed any tax under pretext of alms for the church, by their
authority that they possess as ministers of it; or whether they have
taken more fees than belong to them by our tariffs.

_Item_: If you know whether the choristers and sacristans have
likewise taken larger fees than are assigned them by our said tariffs,
for burials, funeral honors, and other things that belong to them;
and whether, when any poor man has died who has not the wherewithal
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