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was 5,444 pesos and 70 centavos. The instigation of the paymeijt 

 came from the board of consolidation of exchequer bills, junta 

 de consolidacion de vales reales, which had called for a state- 

 ment as to the condition of all charitable foundations adminis- 

 tered within the city of Manila, and which, on May 27, 1808, 

 discovered a considerable discrepancy between the actual sum on 

 hand and the sum reported by the city authorities as being in 

 their possession.^^ 



The "obra pia de aguas," on the other hand, was to pass 

 through many vicissitudes before the will of the founder was to 

 be complied with. The first interference in the course of its 

 regular progress came in 1767, when Joseph de Castillo and 

 Bruno Pastor Morales, as executors of Pedro Carriedo, began 

 to lay claim to the fund, and reached a climax in 1788, when 

 Francisco David instituted a suit in behalf of Hemeterio Josef 

 Bolado y Azaiios, first cousin and heir-at-law of the same Pedro 

 Carriedo, against the corporation and government of the city 

 of Manila for the recovery of 18,000 pesos, more or less, salvage 

 from the wreck of Nuestra Seiiora de Cavadonga, which was 

 the combined value of the two "obras pias."^- The case was 

 decided for the defendant in the municipal court, but on appeal 

 to the "audiencia," the decision was twice reversed (January 

 22 and May 26, 1789)." The city, therefore, went beyond 

 the local courts to the council of the Indies, and as a result of 

 their favorable action received on January 2, 1792, all the books 

 and documents bearing on the case.** 



The second interruption came twelve years later from the 

 board of consolidation of exchequer bills, of which we have 

 spoken. This board was created by a royal order on November 

 8, 1804, and proposed to devote all the moneys and property be- 

 longing to charitable foundations in Manila to the benefit of 



"Mas y Otzet, Carl-iedo y sus obras (1882), 57-58; Actas de Manila 

 (1806), 272-273; (1807), 283-296; (1809), 259-261, 297-298; (1810), 

 23-25, 27-28, 31-33; Noticia de las obras pias y capellanias que tiene la 

 noble ciudad de Manila (May 27, 1808). 



"Probably the legacy made by Francisco de Carriedo was the result of 

 an investment made on the Nuestra Senora de Cavadonga (Cabadonga, 

 Cabdalonga) , which was captured by Anson in 1742. — Kerr, History and 

 Collection of Voyages (1811-1817), 11, 489-501; Archivos de la Audiencia 

 Registro inventario del juzgado general y privativo de los bienes de difuntos 

 (1768), 92. 



°^ Audiencia de las Islas Filipinas. Reales sentencias (1789), 23-24, 

 147-148. 



"Mas y Otzet, Carriedo y sus obras (1882), 55-56. 



