The Case of Hacienda de Calamba: In Focus

Jose Rizal

_____ wrote an emphatic petition in January 1888 in compliance to the colonial government’s demand of a report on the income and production of the lands due to the reason that they suspected that the Dominican Friar Orders were evading payment of taxes.

Dominican Friar Orders

Rizal’s petition included a list of grievances against the ________ who presumably owns the Hacienda de Calamba.

Real Audiencia

The case was appealed in the ______ in Manila but was dismissed

Tribunal Supremo

They placed another appeal in the ______ in Madrid but was again dismissed.

August 1890

On ______, together with the other tenants Rizal’s family was evicted from the lands.

900

the rent rises enormously, there being a case when 45 pesos became ___ in a few years through an annual forces imposition.

16 duros

The rent is raised by ____ (duro is a silver dollar) that was formerly 100, though it had not been enlarged nor has any improvement been made in it.

75

a cavan is equal to ___ liters