hens--the fourth or third part of them pullets, at the rate of four
small ones or two large ones for one laying fowl--and likewise two
thousand eggs, and the number of swine that he may consider proper,
and that can be produced. And the said person, as soon as he shall
receive them, shall distribute them all in due order and form, to those
persons and in the manner ordained and ordered, paying immediately
those who brought them, according to the scale imposed by this royal
Audiencia--advising the natives that during Lent, in place of fowls,
they must send eggs.

In order that this act may be better enforced, and that nothing may
arise to obstruct or hinder its fulfilment (inasmuch as it has been
ordered, by other acts, that all the natives shall raise the said
fowls and swine, under certain penalties), the said alcaldes-mayor are
again charged to exert all care in this matter, so that the natives may
easily furnish what is assigned to and ordered from them. Furthermore,
there shall be no Sangleys (whether infidels or Christians), or native
chiefs or timaguas, excused from undertaking the said breeding, and
furnishing the said allotment, since it is important for their own
welfare, utility, and profit. The said reservation shall be observed
in regard to everything else therein contained; and they ordered all
the said alcaldes-mayor to issue letters and royal decrees, with this
act inserted therein, in order that the provisions herein contained
may begin to be observed from the first of January of the coming
year, one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, beginning with
Tondo and continuing with the other places in the said order. And
the said alcaldes-mayor shall be notified that, just as care will
be taken to reward them for the care and diligence that they shall
exert in its fulfilment, in like manner those who do not observe it
will be punished; and orders will be given to take especial account