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centavos; and in 1903, we, the men, had to pay taxes of 100 centavos; in 

 1904, we had to pay a cedula tax of 1 peso, and road tax of 2 pesos — in 

 all, 3 pesos. Besides these there is another tax yearly ever since the 

 United States of America took control of the Islands. 



We have also to relate in this section our custom when a young man 

 marries a young woman, in order that they may be married; the relatives 

 of both sides must be all gathered together and must make their customary 

 ceremony for a wedding:, they surround a coobran (jar) of tapuy with 

 pieces of wood and erect a bebe (a piece of log) at the door of the house, 

 and the ceremony that they perform is the killing of 5 hogs and some 

 chickens; and after this wedding they cannot go very far away from home 

 for a year. But when they have a child they perform a cafiao called bayas 

 as a galut (clothing) of their babe, and the ceremony that they must 

 perform in this cahao is the killing of 10 hogs besides some chickens used 

 for their habitual offering that we inherited from our forefathers. And 

 this is the result and end of the offering as to our ways and living at Mabi- 

 lili, but in order that the position of our place might be seen, we will mark 

 out the rivers, brooks, and mountains." 



The barrio of Suagayan was named from oaig (brook), so 

 called from a river on its eastern side. Customs are described 

 as follows : 



The custom of the forefathers in the ancient times when the young men 

 and women married was a peculiar one; they did not get married (as the 

 Christians do), but they were committed to two old men who witnessed 

 their marriage. And they [that is, the old men] decided the day on which 

 they must celebrate the wedding, in order that the husband and wife may 

 live together in the same house. If one of the married couple wishes to 

 be divorced 8C from the other, a fine of 1 carabao and punishment of 25 

 strokes is imposed upon him or her; this was the law of our forefathers 

 in the ancient times. The organization of this village was quite good for 

 we compelled all the lazy fellows to work and plant certain crops to feed 

 themselves with. And thus our custom is that we must perform a cafiao 

 called begnas (just before planting and harvesting the crops) and two 

 after the performance of begnas. We perform another canao the ceremony 

 in which is the killing of 1 hog. We must perform certain cafiaos as 

 offerings to God so that He may save our hogs together with our chickens. 



" A rough plan accompanies the manuscript, which is not reproduced 

 here. 



"Worcester [This Journal (1906), 1, 850] says: "The Benguet-Lepanto 

 Jgorots are monogamous. Children are betrothed at a very early age and 

 often marry at the age of puberty or even before. Strong attachments 

 are not uncommon among the married people and divorce is relatively rare." 

 Some men in Lepanto keep concubines. The manuscript Memoria aprocsi- 

 mada says of marriage: "Among these heathen, the passion of love is 

 unknown, because they marry when very young. In the negotiations the 

 contracting parties have nothing to say, for on this occasion, they are 

 subjected to the caprice and wish of their parents. The latter generally 

 base their reasons on one of the two following things. The first is when 

 two intimate friends have their wives with child at the same time; and 

 they agree to bind their offspring together, if it happen that one bear a 



