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    The gobernadorcillo was the highest position a Filipino could attain during Spanish rule and headed each municipio or pueblo. As head of the local government, their duties included preparing tribute lists, overseeing communal works, and assisting with military conscription. They were assisted by lieutenants and inspectors. The cabeza de barangay was the barangay administrator and tax collector who reported to the gobernadorcillo. They were responsible for peace in their barangay and recruiting workers. Requirements to become a cabeza de barangay included literacy, good character, and property ownership.

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    The gobernadorcillo was the highest position a Filipino could attain during Spanish rule and headed each municipio or pueblo. As head of the local government, their duties included preparing tribute lists, overseeing communal works, and assisting with military conscription. They were assisted by lieutenants and inspectors. The cabeza de barangay was the barangay administrator and tax collector who reported to the gobernadorcillo. They were responsible for peace in their barangay and recruiting workers. Requirements to become a cabeza de barangay included literacy, good character, and property ownership.

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    The Filipino Bureaucrats

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    The gobernadorcillo was the highest position a Filipino could attain during Spanish rule and headed each municipio or pueblo. As head of the local government, their duties included preparing tribute lists, overseeing communal works, and assisting with military conscription. They were assisted by lieutenants and inspectors. The cabeza de barangay was the barangay administrator and tax collector who reported to the gobernadorcillo. They were responsible for peace in their barangay and recruiting workers. Requirements to become a cabeza de barangay included literacy, good character, and property ownership.

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    The Filipino Bureaucrats

    Gobernadorcillo
    On the municipal level, the little governor or

    gobernadorcillo (later replaced by the capitan municipal in 1894), headed the pueblo or municipio. Any Filipino or Chinese mestizo, 25 years old, literate in oral and written Spanish, and who had been a cabeza de barangay (barrio administrator) for four years, could be a gobernadorcillo

    This was the highest government position a

    Filipino could attain during the Spanish regime, and together with the parish priest, his role was considered highly significant in a town.
    Among his multifarious administrative duties

    was the preparation of the padron (tribute list), recruitment and distribution of men for the draft labor, communal public work (as in the construction and repair of minor bridges) and the quinto (military conscription), postal clerk, judge in civil suits involving P44.00 or less.

    Indeed, he intervened in all administrative

    cases pertaining to his own: lands, justice, finance, and the armed forces.
    He was assisted by three supernumeraries or

    inspectors (tenientes de justicia) who supervised matters such as boundaries of cultivated fields (sementeras), branding of livestock (ganado) and police (policia); constables (alguaciles); four tenientes segundos; lieutenants of disticts (tenientes del barrio), and a secretary (directorcillo).

    Cabeza De Barangay
    Tax and contributions collector for the

    gobernadorcillo.
    They were exempted from taxation. It was Philip II who conferred upon the barangay

    chief the title of cabezas de barangay to show them good treatment and entrust them, in our name, with the government of the Indians, of whom they were formerly the lords

    Like the gobernadorcillo, he was responsible for

    peace and order in his own barrio and recruited polistas for communal public works
    The Manual del cabeza de barangay (1874)

    required literacy in Spanish, good moral character, and property-ownership as qualifications for cabezas who served for three year terms
    By the mid-nineteenth century, cabezas who had

    served for twenty-five years were exempted from forced labor

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