or THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

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all
throwing them into the river. No public documents
documentsy
exist
now at
avitac or Santa Maria so far as known.
They were
destroyed by the officers because their names appeared thereon and
This information was corroborated by the
they feared detection.
The record of births and deaths in both
ex-secretary of Santa Maria.
places is kept by the padre at Siniloan., The only other records kept
at Siniloan were those of the insurgent government, which it is found
upon inquiry_ were sent to department headquarters when ca tured.
At Mariquina, in the province of Rizal, all records from t e period
of Spanish rule were burned on the advance of the American forces
from Manila or were lost in the mountains.
From Morong it is
reported that all records were destroyed during the insurrection and
the same report comes from Las Pias, Muntinlupa, Maricaban, Santa
Ana, Laguimanoc and Taguig.
All the documents relatin to the province of Bulacan were deposited
in the overnment house, w ich was burned and the papers destroyed,
with t e exception of a few that were put into the hands of Seor
Severino, secretary of the interior of the revolutionary
overnment.
The books containing the registration of property in t e province
of Nueva Ecija have disappeared, having been carried to the pueblo of
Bongabon by the head of the provincial government in his i ht fi'om
the town u on the advance of the American troops.
Recent y a few
were foun in San Isidro.
The ublic papers pertaining to the province of Pampanga were lost
throu
the destruction by re of the government buildings and many
other ouses in the town of Bacolor on June 4, 1898, except a few that
were later found at San Fernando.
Governor Clark reported from the province of Tarlac that there
were no provincial records in that province.
It is said that Gabino
Calma burned them to prevent them from falling into the hands of the
Americans in December, 1899, or January, 1900. There is one excep
tion to this, namely, an account of receipts and ex enditures of money,
which was captured by Lieutenant Taylor, of t e Twefth Infantry,
What is true
and is now in possession of the provincial government.
All the provincial records
of Tarlac is equally true of Pangasinan.

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have disa peared.

From ba, in the province of Zambales, information has been
received that the records of the Spanish Government, found in the
overnors house, were carefully placed in a room and rotected.
ith the assistance of Seor F eliciano Ferrales, registrar 0 pro erty
in the province of Zambales from 1893 to 1897, the records on Iliand
were assorted and arran ed and a list of them made and certied to
by Seor Ferrales and t e presidente of Iba. The records are in a
fair state of preservation, but not complete. Part of the old records
were destroyed in 1898 by insurrectos a ainst the Spanish Govern
remainder were acciden
ment from the province of Bataan, and
tally destroyed by re in April, 1900, in the house of the registrar of
rural lands. The most important records preserved are those from
the year 1890 to 1897.
They are oicial records relating to land. All
other records appear to be of less importance, consisting of pamphlets,
gacetas, regulations for forests, legislation on prohibited games,
receipts, blank books, inventory of country landed property that the
citizens of Bolinao possess within the jurisdiction of that town and the
town of Bani, and small bundle of papers containing communications
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