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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700

Note 39 — Chapter XX

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Spanish, se comprometió. With us elections sometimes go by compromissum; that is, where no result is secured as usual by close ballot the chapter designate a committee to nominate some person, usually with the pledge that the chapter will afterward elect him, and thus ratify the committee’s choice.—Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.

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