ALIQUOT • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Aliquot

... two years of their office. For the polistas, or individuals who are obliged to labor on the public works of the state, build their houses for them free of cost, bringing the materials from the forest or the points where they are found; there are the fallas, or the amount of the aliquot sum that is to make good the deficiency in public works [i.e., in the services on public works rendered by the natives], in the collection of which there is opportunity for the gobernadorcillo to figure, by supporting all or the majority of those ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVII, 1609-1616 • Various