_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez de Almazan_
The licentiate _Zambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_Proclamation_: In the city of Manila, on the twenty-second of January,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands, who signed their
names to the above act, declared and proclaimed it in public session.

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_



_An act decreeing that there shall be no suits without the filing of
a sworn memorandum of the fees that the parties have paid._

In the city of Manila, on the seventh of January, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia, Court, and Chancillería of these Philipinas Islands
declared that, whereas it has come to their knowledge that certain
persons--not only Spaniards, but Indians and Sangleys--who bring
suits in this royal Audiencia and outside of it, in the provincial
and ordinary tribunals, complain of the large sums that are charged
by the courts, in great excess of what they are ordered to charge
by the royal tariffs; and that the notaries of the said tribunals,
contrary to orders, send the appealed suits to this royal Audiencia,