Note 9 — Chapter VII · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE GOVERNOR: THE MILITARY JURISDICTION

Montero y Vidal, Archipiélago Filipino, 162–168. “The Spanish régime in Filipinas lasted 333 years.... During that time there were 97 governors—not counting some twenty who served for less than one year each, mostly ad interim, and the average length of their terms of office was a little less than three and one-half years, a fact which is an important element in the administrative history of the islands” (Blair and Robertson, L, 74, note 46).