Note 7 — Chapter XXV · Slavery and Peonage
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“It is my humble opinion that an act should be passed to the end of eradicating this practice which has become general throughout the Cagayan Valley.7 Otherwise, as I have seen in my continual efforts, the provincial authorities cannot do anything to check the evil, however they may try. It is necessary that some one should be made to feel the rigour of the act suggested and suffer the punishment designated by it.