with the desire to provide for the peacefulness of conscience of the
said persons, and thus to guard against all dangers and discomforts
therein, by these presents, with our authority, we charge and command
our venerable brother the bishop of Manila to have the above-named
persons and the parties to whom restitution is to be made come to an
agreement thereon among themselves, with satisfaction to be made to
the owners wherever these are known. But where they are not known, then
the same compensation is to be made through the bishop in benefit and
aid of Indians in distress, should they who are bound to restitution
be able conveniently so to do; otherwise, if poor themselves, let
them make satisfaction whenever they reach a comfortable state of life.

Moreover, in order that the resolutions determined upon by the said
bishop, with religious and learned men assembled together, in benefit
of the Christians newly converted to the faith, be not infringed
by them through mere whim or anyone's individual deed or fancy, we
wish and by our apostolic authority decree that whatever orders and
commands be passed by the majority of the assembly in the interest of
the Christian faith or the health of souls, for the good government
of Indian converts, shall be steadily and invariably observed until
further orders or commands by the same assembly.... In fine, we
have learned that our very dear son in Christ, Philip, the Catholic
king of the Spains, has ordered that in view of the many deceits
usually practiced therein, no Spaniard in the aforesaid Philippine
Islands shall, even by the right of war, whether just or unjust,
or of purchase, or any other pretext whatsoever, take or hold or keep
slaves or serfs; and yet that in contravention of this edict or command
of King Philip, some still keep slaves in their service. In order,
then, as conformable to reason and equity, that the Indians may go
to and from their Christian doctrinas and their own homes and lands