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to their original purpose. From the larger of the investments, 

 the citizens were to be provided with pure water; from the 

 smaller, an industrial school for beggars was to be founded. 

 Carriedo's plan with regard to the water supply was stated with 

 great clearness, both in his will and in the attached codicil. 



I hereby declare that in the month of December, 1733, 1 wrote to this city 

 and to its merchants, offering them the sum of 10,000 pesos to carry water 

 by means of a pipe line from San Pedro Macati, under tenns and conditions 

 laid down in the said proposal. This offer was considered by them at a 

 meeting of the municipal board on November 5, 1734; but, after discussion, 

 this acceptance was deferred. But since it has always been my purpose 

 to take my part in a work that is acceptable to God, because of the great 

 benefit that may accrue to the poor therefrom, I hereby request my ex- 

 ecutors after my death, when the value of my property has been estimated, 

 to insist on the city and its merchants accepting 10,000 pesos, under similar 

 conditions, which I do not wish changed or altered, excepting only that the 

 place whence the water may most easily be carried may be changed, if it 

 shall be found more convenient to bring water from the Maybonga-^iver 

 along the right bank of the Pasig to Santa Cruz, and not from San Juan 

 del Monte. On these terms alone shall the 10,000 pesos be handed over. 



The conditions are fourteen in number, and were evidently 

 drawn in accordance with the testator's wishes by a second party, 



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Signature of Francisco Carriedo y Peredo. 



suit on appeal to the audiencia in May of the following year. In Feb- 

 ruary, 1734, he secured an additional 150 pesos which had been withheld 

 by Carriedo from his nephews and nieces, while they were living in 

 Paraiiaque. In 1737, however, he lost the guardianship of his step- 

 children, which was transferred to their uncle. After Carriedo's death, the 

 audiencia, on August 17, 1744, ordered 43,198 pesos, 6 tomins, 9 granos, 

 to be paid over to Angulo from the Carriedo estate, but less than four 

 months later, on December 2, reversed this decision, and deposited the 

 bulk of the money in the treasury, which was in urgent need of funds. — 

 Audiencia de las Filipinas. Reales sentencias (1732), 349-352, 520; (1733), 

 25-27; (1734), 252-253; (1737), 156, 194-195; (1744), 120-123, 199-202. 



