• Polo y servicio is the forced labor for 40 days of men ranging from 16

to 60 years of age who were obligated to give personal services to

community projects.
• Construction of churches, roads, bridges, ships, and the industries of
hauling and cutting timber
• The entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the Philippine
possessions of its empire.
• Law of Indies described how to prevent the exploitation of the native
Filipinos in their employment
• Regulates social, political, religious, and economic life in the
Philippines.
• Conditions. The Filipinos drafted for work must be paid for their work.
• The Filipino laborers should not be made to work in distant places
where they could not return to their families.
• Drafting of laborers should not coincide with the planting and harvest
seasons.
• Men who are physically incapable should not overworked.
• Forced labor should be resorted to only in cases of absolute necessity.
• The number of laborers drafted should be diminished as soon as
laborers from other countries had volunteered to work.
• A Falla is a fee to paid to be exempted from force labor.
• This fee was unreasonably high, and oftentimes the laborer could not
afford to pay it.
• Consequences. Filipinos were not paid their wages.
• They were separated from their families.
• They were not given food as required by law.
• They were overworked.