Note 82 — Chapter X · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE CHURCH: THE ROYAL PATRONAGE
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On August 17, 1853, the superintendent of real hacienda of Manila made an effort to revive the payment of tithes, which practice had become extinct. He ordered the religious provincials to present in the administración general de tributos lists of all taxable property under their jurisdiction (Montero y Vidal, Historia general, III, 178).