Directions: Read the Excerpt of “Petition of the Town of Calamba” written by Jose Rizal in January 1888 and answer the question asked below. 1) Because the wild forests which are given to the tenants for a low rent at the beginning according as the tenants clear and clean them, investing large capital in them, according as the fortune of the farmer becomes involved in them, the contract is arbitrarily altered by the Estate, the rent rises enormously, there being a case when 45 pescs became 900 in a few years through an annual forced imposition. (2) Because some lands pay twice for two harvests of rice, where some bamboo groves are found, the farmer pays for the land and for each bamboo grove besides, regardless of whether it is useless or it has been felled. In the lands where huts have been erected for the workers, one has to pay for the lots and the huts besides. (3) Because the rent of the town lots where houses or warehouses are erected increases every time an official or servant of the Estate measures them. There seems to exist either a supernatural power that invisibly extends the land or a natural power that shortens the measure of the official, who after all is neither an expert nor a surveyor, though he is very venal indeed. Without this trick, the rent is also raised when the tenant makes improvement in the lot, or when he replaces the bamboo fence with a stone one, or builds a wooden house, for comfort and public embellishment; even if they have the means to do so. (4) Because ricefields that are planted with only 3 or 4 cavanes of seed, pay as if they have a capacity for 9.5 and 14 cavanes, on pain of being declared vacant and given to others. The products for the tenants have decreased considerably in spite of continuous labor, not only before but also these last years as proven by the large number of ruined farmers, indebted and dispossessed of their property... On the other hand, the desperate ones who wish to return a parcel of land that is unproductive will not be allowed to do so and they face ruin as they will be threatened of being despoiled of all their other parcels. It arouses suspicion that they do not want to write in the receipts the amount paid as rental and the total absence of any record, especially in these last years. Question: In each number of the petitions, tell me thoroughly what does it all about.
Directions: Read the Excerpt of “Petition of the Town of Calamba” written by Jose Rizal in January 1888 and answer the question asked below.
1) Because the wild forests which are given to the tenants for a low rent at the beginning according as the tenants clear and clean them, investing large capital in them, according as the fortune of the farmer becomes involved in them, the contract is arbitrarily altered by the Estate, the rent rises enormously, there being a case when 45 pescs became 900 in a few years through an annual forced imposition.
(2) Because some lands pay twice for two harvests of rice, where some bamboo groves are found, the farmer pays for the land and for each bamboo grove besides, regardless of whether it is useless or it has been felled. In the lands where huts have been erected for the workers, one has to pay for the lots and the huts besides.
(3) Because the rent of the town lots where houses or warehouses are erected increases every time an official or servant of the Estate measures them. There seems to exist either a supernatural power that invisibly extends the land or a natural power that shortens the measure of the official, who after all is neither an expert nor a surveyor, though he is very venal indeed. Without this trick, the rent is also raised when the tenant makes improvement in the lot, or when he replaces the bamboo fence with a stone one, or builds a wooden house, for comfort and public embellishment; even if they have the means to do so.
(4) Because ricefields that are planted with only 3 or 4 cavanes of seed, pay as if they have a capacity for 9.5 and 14 cavanes, on pain of being declared vacant and given to others. The products for the tenants have decreased considerably in spite of continuous labor, not only before but also these last years as proven by the large number of ruined farmers, indebted and dispossessed of their property... On the other hand, the desperate ones who wish to return a parcel of land that is unproductive will not be allowed to do so and they face ruin as they will be threatened of being despoiled of all their other parcels. It arouses suspicion that they do not want to write in the receipts the amount paid as rental and the total absence of any record, especially in these last years.
Question: In each number of the petitions, tell me thoroughly what does it all about.
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