law. In future years the other members, in their turn, shall continue
to audit the said accounts annually, as is here declared. Thus they
voted, and ordered it to be registered as an act, and signed the same.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almaçan_
The licentiate _Albaro Çambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the residencias of the faithful administrators
of this city shall be taken every two months._

In the city of Manila, on the nineteenth of December, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas the king
our sovereign, in one of his royal ordinances, ordains and commands
that the said president and auditors shall take a residencia every
two months of the faithful administrators of the city in which this
his royal Audiencia shall reside: therefore, in order that the said
royal ordinance may be exactly enforced, and his Majesty's royal
will observed and enforced in everything, they ordered, and they
did so order, that from the first day of January of the coming year,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, and thenceforth, the said
decree shall take effect. They appointed therefor the licentiate Albaro
Çambrano, auditor of this royal Audiencia, to take the said residencia
of the said regidors and faithful administrators who have filled the