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 cabezas are ex-officio attorneys for their barangays in all matters that concern them collectively, and electors of the gobernadorcillos and other officials of justice.
The tributarios of many towns go, after mass, to hear orally the orders that the cabezas communicate to them.
In some provinces the cabezas appoint only the three who have to compose the terna [i.
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.
If the gobernadorcillo is energetic or has a bad temper, the cabezas fear and respect him highly; but if he is irresolute they abuse him.
The electors are the outgoing gobernadorcillo and the twelve senior cabezas de barangay.
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.
Such we call cabezas de barangay in Tagálog, and Ginhaopan in Visayan.
Cabuco was an escribiente [91] of the administration of State; and Eugenio Cabezas a watch-tinker.
At the end his only loyal supporter was Friar Juan Cabezas de Altamirano, who had succeeded Salcedo in the bishopric of Santiago.
Friu Juan de las Cabezas and some of the government officials withdrew to Bayamo, which, for a time at least, offered safety.
First of all, six cabezas and as many gobernadorcillos are chosen by lot as electors; the actual gobernadorcillo is the thirteenth, and the rest quit the hall.
The cabezas wore, in token of their dignity, a short jacket above their shirts.
Besides these, there are in every pueblo certain functionaries who are called Cabezas (heads) de Barangay.
In some provinces the cabezas are only chosen for three years; after which they form part of the principalia, and take the title of Don.
The cabezas are also considered the procuradores, or law advisers, of these little communities.
We immediately prepared to drive out to the ranch, which was ten miles distant and reached by a road that skirted the Dos Cabezas mountains.
Las Cabezas de San Juan is a wretched little village, which inscriptions found in its vicinity have decided to be the Ugia[43] of the Romans.
El enjaeza el caballo Be lascabezas de fama," says one of the old Moorish ballads.
In the sculptures 'se hallan proporciones regulares, y mucha espresion en las cabezas y en el adorno de las figuras; mientras que en las otras (Aztec) no se descubren sino vestigios de barbarie.
Behind the Mother of God came the Spaniards and the rest of the clergy, while the officiating priest was protected by a canopy carried by the cabezas de barangay, and the procession was closed by a squad of the worthy Civil Guard.
First, there are chosen by lot six cabezas de barangay and six ex-gobernadorcillos as electors, the actual gobernadorcillo being the thirteenth.
All thecabezas de barangay, the gobernadorcillo, and those who have formerly occupied the latter position, seat themselves on benches.
Off the Cabezas the Minion fell in with a frigate from Nicaragua "in which was some gold and a Genoese pilot.
They then filled their water casks, and stood away to the west, to cruise for a few days off the Cabezas in the hope of obtaining news of Captain Tetû.
As soon as the day dawned, the two frigates sailed away again to the Cabezas to prepare for the voyage home.
We was workin' the rodeo back of Dos Cabezas when we come across a seven-year ol' black horse that was an outlaw.
Then, Katherine and Powell stood side by side, watching the train pull away until it disappeared in the gap between the Graham and Dos Cabezas ranges.
Well, he took Black Devil down to the blacksmith at Dos Cabezas and hed some shoes made for him.
But it is to be noted that the village does not settle upon them, but the cabezas only.
The remedy is that, when the minister learns of it, he causes the cabezas to be punished, and the silver to be returned to the cailianes.
Some are peculiar to the cabezas de barangay, with their cailianes; others are common to every kind of rich Indian toward the poor.
In this way there are cabezas who hold many cailianes in slavery, making them serve in their houses for many years--without allowing them sometimes to hear mass or to go to the village, so that the father may not see them.
Rather they are a suspicious party, in this point, for if there is any work in the village, the cabezas are wont to have the greatest advantage from it.
Consequently, the personal service of the village falls on very few, because of these and other like exemptions by the gobernadorcillos and cabezas for money, by which they themselves alone profit.
First, the cabezas are accustomed to impose on their cailianes certain taxes of silver, rice, and other products, under pretexts that they there feign, of service to the church or to the village.
This is not only an odious task, but also the reason for infamous vexations on the part of the cabezas de barangai, for the unhappy cailianes are those who have to furnish it all without even collecting a thing.
He assembles the cabezas de barangai; the whole sum is apportioned among the people of the village.
All the Cabezas de Barangay, the Gobernadorcillo and those who have formerly been such have taken their places on the benches.
The electors of the gobernadorcillo were made up of those, who were or had been cabezas de barangay and they after three years of service became eligible to the office of petty governor.
Within the pueblos the people formed little groups of from forty to fifty tributes called barangays under the supervision of cabezas de barangay.
The Gobernadorcillo in council with the other Cabezas presented a name to the superior authority for appointment Bowring, p.
Finally, when the said Indians are paid, it is done by the hand of the chiefs or cabezas de barangay, who generally keep the money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cabezas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
