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Excerpt from Commercial Directory of Manila, 1901 On the 24th of June Legaspi established the City Council of Manila, making this city the Capital 01 the Philippine Islands with all the privileges inherent as such in the same manner as cities were established and organized in Spain. The privileges of the city of Manila were confirmed by the King by an ordinance dated November 19, 1595, and another of the 2oth of March, 1596, in which the Spanish Monarch also granted the city a coat of arms, consisting of a silver castle on a red ground with a crowned lion on the lower part by the side ofa delphin holding a sword and thrashing the sea with its tail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.