In regard to judicial matters, all complaints were brought before the dato of the barangay (district) for examination.
At these no one could fish, or trade in the markets, without paying for the privilege, unless he belonged to the chief's barangay or village.
But on the other hand, they may not move from a place having instruction to one without it, nor in the same village from one barangay to another, nor from one faction to another.
They would not recognize the authority of the principales and barangay chiefs and in some towns of Ilokos they went so far as to set free the prisoners.
But, on the other hand, they may not move from a place having instruction to one without it, nor in the same village from one barangay to another, nor from one faction to another.
So far has it gone that the government itself not only permits it, but also exacts the capital and even the person to pay the debts of others, as happens with the cabeza de barangay [head of a barangay].
This is done with the lords and possessors of barangays, and those belonging to such and such a barangay are under that chief's control.
This chief lord of a barangay collects tribute from his adherents, and takes charge of these collections, to pay them to the encomendero.
First, there are chosen by lot six cabezas de barangay and six ex-gobernadorcillos as electors, the actual gobernadorcillo being the thirteenth.
Now that their chief rival had been defeated, even the worst of the irreconcilable insurgents looked on with calmness while a young cabeza de barangay asked for the floor.
Disputes and wrongs between members of the same barangay were referred to a number of old men, who decided the matter in accordance with the customs of the tribe, which were handed down by tradition.
At the head of each barangay was a chief known as the "dato," a word no longer used in the northern Philippines, though it persists among the Moros of Mindanao.
The barangay was responsible for the good conduct of its members, and if one of them suffered an injury from a man outside, the whole barangay had to be appeased.
A man could not leave his own barangay for life in another without the consent of the community and the payment of money.
This was determined by the chief of the barangay to which the murderer and the murdered belonged, if each party were of his barangay.
The chiefs of the barangay were judges, and shared with the heirs of the deceased.
He recalled the story of a cabeza de barangay in his town who, for having signed a document that he did not understand, was kept a prisoner for months and months, and came near to deportation.
The first care the community took when they saw the family prospering was to appoint as cabeza de barangay its most industrious member, which left only Tano, the son, who was only fourteen years old.
Such we call cabezas de barangay in Tagálog, and Ginhaopan in Visayan.
This barangay consisted of about one hundred persons, more or less, according to the number that they knew were sufficient for their territory.
No Indian could pass voluntarily from one barangay to another without the payment of a certain sum, which was established among them, and unless he made a great feast to all the barangay which he left.
Whenever such persons wanted any small trifle, they begged the head chief of their barangay for it, and he gave it to them.
He fitted up a barangay quickly, in which they attempted to escape, but the night was stormy, and all were drowned.
If a man of one barangay married a woman from another, the children had to be divided between the barangays, as was also done with the slaves.
Their judges for this were the chief or dato aided by some old men of his own barangay, or of another barangay if necessary.
Or they themselves appointed a judge-arbiter, even if he were of a distinct barangay or village.
If a man of one barangay happened to marry a woman of another, the children had to be divided between the barangays, in the same manner as the slaves.
In this occupation they often pass all the night until dawn; and the cabezas de barangay lose the tributes of their subjects, and they have to go immediately to jail, or take to the mountain.
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There must be no singing on board a barangay when returning to the village, but strict silence is maintained.
However, they could be transferred from the barangay by inheritance, provided they remained in the same village.
No one belonging to another barangay would cultivate them unless after purchase or inheritance.
The same was true when the whole barangay went to clear up his lands for tillage.
And so, even at the present day, it is ascertained that this barangayin its origin was a family of parents and children, relations and slaves.
Failure to pay the fine might result in a war between the barangay which the person left and the one which he entered.
The maharlicas could not, after marriage, move from one village to another, or from one barangay to another, without paying a certain fine in gold, as arranged among them.
The other six are chosen from amongst the Barangay headmen.
It was directly effected by the Barangay headman each of whom was supposed to answer for fifty families, the individuals of which were spoken of as his sacopes.
No doubt a great deal of latitude was allowed to the Barangay Chiefs in order that they might collect the tax, and the stick was often in requisition.
The chief of the Barangay (clan) loses the tribute-money he has collected; his doom is the prison, or a flight to the mountains.
A barangay is a collection of the chiefs of families, or persons paying tribute, generally amounting to forty or fifty.
Governor Don Juan Halimao, Don Diego Caya, Domingo Sati, chiefs and lords of barangay of the village of Tableco, and several of their timaguas.
In the one case a barangay and four soldiers mutinied and went away, no one knows where.
Zendera had, of course, extended favors to these barangay chiefs in exchange for reciprocal advantages.
The cabezas de barangay are chiefs of fifty families, those from whom are collected the contributions that form part of the revenues of the treasury and government.
As the cabezas de barangay and some members of their families are exempted from paying tributes, they form a privileged class which is a burden on the taxpayers--a serious defect in the system of government.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barangay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
