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State of the Philippine Islands; Being an Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive Account of That Interesting Portion of the Indian Archipelago
Tomás de Comyn
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-20.
ISBN 9781150486418
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Original Publisher: T. and J. Allman Description: "Translator's preliminary discourse" gives an outline of Philippine history to 1773. Subjects: Philippines Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. III. Internal and external Commerce. -- Funds therein invested. -- Property belonging to pious and cJiaritable Institutions. -- Mercantile Shipping. -- Royal Philippine Company. Internal Commerce. -- The circulation of the country productions and effects of all kinds among the inhabitants of the provinces, which, properly speaking, constitutes their internal commerce, is tolerably active and considerable. Owing to the great facilities of conveyance, afforded by the number of rivers and lakes, on the margins of which the Indians are fond of fixing their dwellings, this commerce might be infinitely greater, if it was not obstructed by the monopoly of the magistrates in their respective districts and the unjust prerogativn, exercised by the city, of imposing rates and arbitrary prices on the very persons who come to bring in supplies. Nevertheless, as the iniquitous operations of the district magistrates, however active they may be, besides being confined to their pecuniary means, regularly consist of arrangements to buy up only the chief articles, and those which promise most advantage, with least trouble; as that restless inquietude which impels man on, under the hope of bettering his condition, acts even amidst the rigour of oppression, a certain degree of stimulus and scope is still left in favour of internal trade. Hence it follows, that there is scarcely an island or province, that does not carry on some traffic or other, by keeping up
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