said offices, and to take from them an account of how they employed
their time in the past, and up to the said day. This shall be done in
due form, and in conformity with the law. And they gave him power and
full commission therefor, as far as the law required. In the future,
the said residencia shall continue to be taken every two months by
the said auditors--the licentiate Tellez Almaçan, and Doctor Antonio
de Morga, each in his turn, and in the aforesaid manner, to succeed
the licentiate Albaro Çambrano. By this act they so provided, ordered,
and appointed.

_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 auditors shall keep a
record of the suits concerning the royal exchequer.

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, orders and
commands the aforesaid to keep a record of the suits and affairs of
the royal exchequer; and that on Thursday of each week the senior
auditor, his Majesty's fiscal, the royal officials, and the notary
of the royal treasury shall hold a meeting: therefore, in order that