Note 45 — Chapter VII · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE GOVERNOR: THE MILITARY JURISDICTION

Recopilación, 2–15–55. Don Antonio de Morga, writing in his Sucesos in 1609, described the Chinese government of the Parián as follows: “The Chinese have a governor of their own race, a Christian, who has his officials and assistants. He hears their cases in affairs of justice, in their domestic and business affairs; appeals from him go to the alcalde-mayor of Tondo, or of the Parián, and from all these to the Audiencia, which also gives especial attention to this nation and whatever pertains to it” (Morga’s Sucesos, Blair and Robertson, XVI, 197). See W. L. Schurz, “The Chinese in the Philippines,” in The Pacific Ocean in history, 214–222.