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t." [140] _Ut supra_, ii, p. 336. (Cited by Jagor.) [141] The office of alcalde falls into three divisions--_entrada_ [_i.e._, entrance], _ascenso_ [_i.e._, promotion], and _termino_ [_i.e._, limit] (royal order, March 31, 1837, tit. i, i) The alcalde's term of service is three years in each grade (tit. ii, articles 11, 12, and 13). Under no pretext can anyone remain longer than ten years in the magistracy of the Asiatic provinces (article 16). (Note by Jagor.) [142] This town is on the Pacific coast of Luzon, and is provincial capital of Infanta (now annexed to province of Tayabas). It is near the port of Lampon, which was used in the seventeenth century as a harbor for the Acapulco galleons, as being more accessible than any port in San Bernardino Strait. See _U. S. Philippine Gazetteer_, pp. 553, 554, 578. [143] This name is still retained, as an alternative appellation of Point Concepcion, which is on the southeastern coast of Maestro de Campo Island, off west coast of Mindoro. [144] Referring to Gabriel Sanchez and Juan de Torres (VOL. XII, pp. 301, 310-313). The former entered the Society in its Toledo province, about 1589; and, seven years later, went to join the Philippine mission. He spent some twenty years in labors among the Visayan natives; and died at Palapag, aged forty-eight years, on January 1, 1617. Juan de Torres was born at Montilla, in 1564, and entered the Jesuit order at the age of nineteen. He came to the islands with Sanchez, in 1596, and the two were colaborers in Bohol. After many years of work in the Visayas, Torres was obliged by ill-health to return to Manila; he then learned the Tagal language, and labored among the mountaineers of Bondoc. He died at Manila, January 14, 1625. (See Murillo Velarde's _Hist. Philipinas_, fol. 11, 30.) [145] The name of a point and a village on the southeastern coast of Bohol. [146] See Legazpi's account of this, in VOL. II, pp. 207, 208. [147] These were Loboc and Baclayon; see Murillo Velarde's account of this rebellion (_Hist. Philipinas_, fol. 17, 18). It was put down by Juan de Alcarazo, alcalde-mayor of Cebu, with fifty Spaniards and one thousand friendly Indians (1622). Murillo Velarde says: "The Boholans are the most warlike and valiant among the Indians." [148] Giuseppe Lamberti, an Italian, was born November 25, 1691; and entered the Jesuit order October 15, 1716. In the following year, he set out for the Philippine missions; and f
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