ors and champan hands on his Majesty's
champans that carry the food and products that are
transported and bought in the islands, taking these to
the ports where they are needed (and there are about
one hundred and sixty Sangleys with their bosses),
all received various wages. They receive the same now,
except that the twenty gantas of cleaned rice which
was given to each one as a monthly ration has been
reduced by five, and each one is now given fifteen
gantas. That reduction amounts to sixty gantas apiece
per year, and the total for all one hundred and sixty
Sangleys is nine thousand six hundred gantas
0 9,600 0
The Sangley carpenters and sawyers who were actually
working in Cavite and other places received sixty-eight
and one-half pesos apiece [per year], and twenty
gantas of cleaned rice per month. Now they receive
the same pay, and fifteen gantas. Five gantas per
month have been taken from each one by the revision,
or sixty per year. There being fifty Sangleys among
those workmen, three thousand gantas are saved annually
0 3,000 0
The Sangley sawyers of brazas received the same
pay formerly as now, and nothing has been saved on
this item 0 0 0
Thirty Sangley smiths who worked on the Cavite shore,
and in other places, received various wages, and
twenty gantas of cleaned rice apiece per month. Now
they receive the same pay, and fifteen gantas. By
the revision five gantas per month have been taken
from each one, or sixty per year. From all the thirty
Sangleys one thousand eight hundred gantas are saved
0 1,800 0
Fourteen Sangley calkers who were ordinarily employed
on the royal works of Cavite and in other places
received five pesos five tomins and twenty gantas
of cleaned rice per month. Now they receive the same
pay and fifteen gantas. Each one has been deprived of
five gantas per month, or sixty gantas per year. The
reduction from all fourteen amounts to eight hundred
and forty gantas. Besides that, each one's pay has
been decreased by five reals per month, which for all
fourteen amounts to one hundred and five pesos per year
105 p. 840 0
The twenty Indians who served as rowers in the
sentinel-boat of Mariveles were formerly paid one peso
per month and one hundred fanega
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