The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 - 1609-1616 - Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Sho by Unknown
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_Item_: As such founders, and in behalf of what pertains to the said
province and its religious, and those of this said convent, I, the said father provincial and the other fathers, do ordain that the branches studied and taught in the arts, theology, and other subjects, by the religious of the said province and order of our father St. Dominic, shall be studied in the same college forever, and not those of any other order, seculars, of whatever rank and quality they may be, both to the religious of the said order, and any other persons whatever, ecclesiastical or secular, who shall go there to study--and especially and chiefly to the secular students who shall be reared and taught there; and they shall wear, as distinctive marks of being students there, black gowns with white facings. _Item_: That the said father provincial--and, in his absence, the said prior who shall be directing the said college--may accept fellowships to it, chaplaincies, legacies, and endowments, which may be made--with any obligation to say masses or other suffrages which shall have to be fulfilled in this said convent by the religious of it. The college shall satisfy the said convent for the said suffrages, in the form decided by the said father provincial or prior, with the advice of the fathers of the council who reside in this convent; and from that moment permission and authority shall be granted for it. _Item_: Whenever it may be deemed expedient, the provincial chapter of this said province--by which is understood the provincial of the province and four definitors--and two other religious of the said order of the highest rank and learning, may make statutes, ordinances, and new articles for the welfare of the said college--in the distribution and administration of its properties and incomes; in what pertains to the ministry and teaching of the subjects that |
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