Note 5 — Law IV
Reading edition
The Sangley Chinese of Filipinas have a box with three keys, in which each Sangley deposits twelve reals per year in order to meet their obligations to our royal service with that fund. We order that if there be any balance in any year, it be not withdrawn; and that the Sangleys be assessed so much less the following year.5 [Felipe IV—Madrid, September 10, 1627.] [147]