POINT OUT THE IMPORTANT DETAILS IN THE TEXT GIVEN BELOW. Given text: The commoners are called aliping namamahay.

They are married and serve their master, whether he be a dato or not, with half of their cultivated lands, as was agreed upon in the beginning. They accompanied him wherever he went beyond the island and rowed for him. They live in their own houses and are lords of their property and gold. Their children inherit it and enjoy their property and lands. The children, then, enjoy the rank of their fathers, and they cannot be made slaves (Sa guiguilir) nor can either parents or children be sold. If they should fall by inheritance into the hands of a son of their master who was going to dwell in another village, they could not be taken from their own village and carried with him; but they would remain in their own village, doing service there and cultivating the sowed lands.

The slaves are called aliping sa guiguilir. They serve their master in his house and on his cultivated lands and may be sold. The master grants them, should they see fit, and providing that he has profited through their industry, a portion of their harvests, so that they may work faithfully. For these reasons, servants who are born in the house of their master are rarely, if ever, sold. That is the lot of captives in war, and of those brought up in the harvest fields….

The difference between the aliping namamahay and the aliping sa guiguilir, should be noted; for, by a confusion of the two terms, many have been classed as slaves who really are not. The Indians seeing that the alcaldes-mayor do not understand this, have adopted the custom of taking away the children of the aliping namamahay, making use of them as they would of aliping sa guiguilir, as servants in their households, which is illegal, and if the aliping namamahay should appeal to justice, it is proved that he is an alipin as well as his father and mother before him and no reservation is made as to whether he is aliping namamahay or aliping sa guiguilir. He is at once considered an alipin, without further declaration. In this way, he becomes a sa guiguilir, and is even sold. Consequently, the alcalde mayor should be instructed to ascertain, when anyone asks for his alipin, to which class he belongs, and to have the answer put in the document that they give him.

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