sentences:  The taxes required them to pay a monetary sum as well as to perform forced labor called, "polo y servicio".The mutiny was sparked on January 20, 1872 when the laborers received their pay and realized the taxes as well as the "falla", the fine one paid to be exempt from forced labor, had been deducted from their salaries.Different accounts in the Cavite mutiny also highlighted other probable causes of the "revolution" which includes Spanish Revolution which overthrew the secular throne, dirty propagandas proliferated by unrestrained press, democratic, liberal and republican books and pamphlets reaching the Philippines, and most importantly, the presence of the native clergy who out of animosity against the Spanish friars, "conspired and supported" the rebels and enemies of Spain.