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the suburbs were not touched, nor was water carried to the 

 houses of private citizens, and it was to secure these advantages 

 that Carriedo made his bequest. 



The municipal board received the legacy in 1748. According 

 to the terms of the will, they were not entitled to utilize the 

 money at once, and, consequently, invested it in the Acapulco 

 galleon and in ships trading to China, the Moluccas, and India. 

 Owing to the destruction of the city archives by the British 

 during the occupation of Manila (1762 to 1764), it is im- 

 possible to estimate the extent to which the fund increased in 

 value during the first fourteen years of its existence. All that 

 we know is that a considerable sum was seized when Admiral 

 Cornish captured the city of Manila on October 6, 1762, and 

 that, among other funds administered by the city, the Carriedo 

 chest was also raided.^^ Fortunately, a nucleus was saved on 

 the galleon Filipino on returning from Acapulco, amounting, in 

 the case of the "obra pia de aguas," as one portion of the Ca- 

 rriedo bequest was now called, to 9,551.75 pesos, and of the "obra 

 pia de pobres" to 2,472.37 pesos, the result of loans made in 

 1761 at 21.25 per cent.^® The story of the salvation of these 

 amounts is somewhat vague. Apparently, the captain of the 

 Filipino, on being forewarned from Manila as to the presence of 

 the British in Philippine waters, instead of following the usual 

 route to Manila, abandoned his vessel, and landed his money 

 and cargo on the northern coast of the Island of Samar," whence 

 it was conveyed, first, by sea to a port in Albay and, thence, 

 overland to Bacolor in Pampanga. The total sum saved was 

 probably large, although Ferrando's statement that, including the 

 "situado" or annual subsidy from Mexico, it amounted to over 

 2,500,000 pesos is in all likelihood dictated by his partiality to 

 Archbishop Rojo, who had accused Anda of fraud in the matter.^^ 



"'At the beginning of 1764, the municipal board reported that they had 

 no funds and no supplies, and that their records and papers were in a 

 pitiable condition. — Actas de Manila (1764), 14, 63. 



'" The term "obra pia" as applied to these two funds was first used 

 in 1767 by Tomas Gomez de Angulo, city attorney of Manila. Carriedo 

 uses the term "obra" in his will in the phrase "obra de conducir las aguas de 

 San Pedro de Macati a Manila," and elsewhere. (Vide ante, pp. 171, 172.) 



=^ The actual spot has been identified as Calbayogan at the west entrance 

 of the port of Palapag. Archbishop Rojo merely says, "at Palapa," and 

 Anda, "at the Province of Leyte." Blair and Robertson, The Philippine 

 Islands (1907), 49, 51, 113, 208, 298. 



"Anda's action is, however, defended by Montero y Vidal. Montero y 

 Vidal, Historia de Filipinas (1887-95), 2, 115-116; Ferrando, Juan, y Fon- 

 seca, Joaquin, Historia de los dominicos en las Islas Filipinas (1870), 4, 624; 

 Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands (1906) , 44, 258-259 ; ( 1907) , 50, 38. 



