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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Believe me, Chichoy, of Quiroga the Chinaman! I heard it in the office." "Nakú, it's certain then," exclaimed the simpleton, believing it at once. "Quiroga," explained the clerk, "has a hundred thousand pesos in Mexican silver out in the bay. How is he to get it in? Very easily.
These are collected from the encomenderos, in proportion to, and on the account of, their tributes, and amount annually to thirty-four thousand pesos. The fines and expenses of justice are committed to the care of the treasurer of the royal revenues, and are kept in the treasury. They amount annually to three thousand pesos.
In speaking of the cable, one of the Signal Corps officers told the Rajah Muda that it was a gift of half a million pesos from the United States to the Philippine Islands, at which the datto was obviously impressed.
When I was a young feller I did a hitch in the navy and become a first-class gunner, and then I went to sea in the merchant marine, and got my mate's license, and when I flashed my credentials on the president of the United States of Colombia he give me a job at "dos cienti pesos oro" per. That's Spanish for two hundred bucks gold a month.
God's own truth is this: I have stolen, and if I say that everyone here has done the trick, I'm not telling a lie, I reckon!" "Hell, I stole a lot of them sewing machines in Mexico," exclaims a major. "I made more'n five hundred pesos even though I sold them at fifty cents apiece!"
The members to the number of 17 individuals, including the bishop, drew annual stipends from the insular treasury to the amount of 36,888 pesos, besides which they possessed and still possess a capital of over one and a half millions of pesos, represented by: 1. Vacant chaplaincies. 2. Idem for account of the Carmelite Sisterhood. 4.
We feel sure that this great plan will be preferred by all over any other that our opponents think of or are capable of conceiving." This presumptuous exordium so thoroughly irritated the minds of the conservatives that they swore in their hearts to offer determined opposition. "We have estimated three thousand five hundred pesos for the expenses," went on Don Filipo.
"Huh!" grunted an old man, "a two-peso bomb doesn't frighten or deafen me! They ought to be three-peso ones." "Write down one thousand pesos for two hundred bombs and two hundred rockets." The conservatives could no longer restrain themselves. Some of them rose and began to whisper together.
You can get anything you wish through the Customs boxes of lamps, iron, copper, glassware, Mexican pesos you furnish arms to the conventos, don't you?" The Chinese nodded affirmation, but remarked that he had to do a good deal of bribing. "I furnish the padres everything!" "Well, then," added Simoun in a low voice, "I need you to get in for me some boxes of rifles that arrived this evening.
The position had cost him five thousand pesos and many humiliations, but, considering the profits he made, the price was very cheap.
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