REPORT or THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. 509
alldocumentsy
throwing them into the river. No public documentsexist now at
avitac or Santa Maria so far as known. They weredestroyed by the
officers because their names appeared thereon andthey feared
detection. This information was corroborated by theex-secretary of
Santa Maria. The record of births and deaths in bothplaces is kept
by the padre at Siniloan., The only other records keptat Siniloan
were those of the insurgent government, which it is foundupon
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
forcesfrom Manila or were lost in the mountains. From Morong it
isreported that all records were destroyed during the insurrection
andthe same report comes from Las Pias, Muntinlupa, Maricaban,
SantaAna, Laguimanoc and Taguig.
All the documents relatin to the province of Bulacan were
depositedin 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 SeorSeverino, secretary of the interior of the revolutionary
overnment.
The books containing the registration of property in t e
provinceof Nueva Ecija have disappeared, having been carried to the
pueblo ofBongabon by the head of the provincial government in his i
ht fi'omthe town u on the advance of the American troops. Recent y
a fewwere foun in San Isidro.
The ublic papers pertaining to the province of Pampanga were
lostthrou the destruction by re of the government buildings and
manyother ouses in the town of Bacolor on June 4, 1898, except a
few thatwere later found at San Fernando.
Governor Clark reported from the province of Tarlac that
therewere no provincial records in that province. It is said that
GabinoCalma burned them to prevent them from falling into the hands
of theAmericans in December, 1899, or January, 1900. There is one
exception to this, namely, an account of receipts and ex enditures
of money,which was captured by Lieutenant Taylor, of t e Twefth
Infantry,and is now in possession of the provincial government.
What is trueof Tarlac is equally true of Pangasinan. All the
provincial recordshave disa peared.
From ba, in the province of Zambales, information has
beenreceived that the records of the Spanish Government, found in
theovernors house, were carefully placed in a room and
rotected.
ith the assistance of Seor Feliciano Ferrales, registrar 0 pro
ertyin the province of Zambales from 1893 to 1897, the records on
Iliandwere assorted and arran ed and a list of them made and
certied toby Seor Ferrales and t e presidente of Iba. The records
are in afair state of preservation, but not complete. Part of the
old recordswere destroyed in 1898 by insurrectos a ainst the
Spanish Government from the province of Bataan, and ti
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remainder were accidentally destroyed by re in April, 1900, in
the house of the registrar ofrural lands. The most important
records preserved are those fromthe year 1890 to 1897. They are
oicial records relating to land. Allother 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 thecitizens of Bolinao
possess within the jurisdiction of that town and thetown of Bani,
and a small bundle of papers containing communications
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