Note 6 — The Spanish Friars, After 1898
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The outcome of the controversy respecting the benefices was that the friars could be sent to those parishes where the people were willing to receive them, without danger of giving rise to public disorder. This was in accordance with President McKinleyʼs Instructions to the Taft Commission dated April 7, 1900,6 which says: “No form of religion and no minister of religion shall be forced upon any community or upon any citizen of the Islands.”