| Item Call Number |
ME00326 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
ME00326 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - ME00326
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Tobacco Monopoly Monument
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Memorial to the Tobacco Monopoly in 1782 has inscriptions which read: A Su Magestad/ El Rey D. Alfonso XII Q. D. C./ Agradecida por el de Destanco del Tabaco/. In order to increase public revenues and free the Philippines from financial dependence on Mexico, Governor Jose de fiasco y Vargas decided to establish a government monopoly on tobacco. On March 1, 1782, he formally organized the tobacco monopoly in the Philippines. He proclaimed the cultivation of tobacco under government control and supervision in the Cagayan Valley, the Ilocos, Nueva Ecija, and Marinduque. Each family in these tobacco districts had a quota of 40,000 plants to rise annually, and the entire crop had to be sold to the government at fixed price. If the crop was below the quota, the farmer was fined; if it exceeded, the surplus was destroyed. Government agents searched the houses of the farmers for concealed tobacco leaves, to see if there was any part of the crop reserved for family use. All tobacco leaves were taken to Manila, where they were manufactured into cigars and cigarettes in government factories, after which they were sold to the people at government price, or were exported abroad. Provincial administrators, crop and market inspectors, and internal revenue agents were employed to prevent loss of government revenue and to ferret out violators of the law. The monopoly was abolished in 1882 during the administration of Governor Fernando Primo de Rivera, in compliance with the royal decree of June 25, 1881.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1973
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Monuments and markers
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1782
- Focus term - 1973
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - cgayan valley
- Focus term - government control
- Focus term - ilocos
- Focus term - jose basco y vargas
- Focus term - luzon
- Focus term - marinduque
- Focus term - nueva ecija
- Focus term - revenue
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