and he may proceed against those of whom he may be suspicious, or who
administer and manage dishonestly, or waste, the goods and effects of
the said minors; and may make in the case all the inquiries suitable
and necessary, until he shall hand down a definite decision in such
cases--for which, and for everything annexed to and pertaining to it,
they gave him the requisite power and authority, in the sufficiency
required by law. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almazan_
The licentiate _Cambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_




_An act decreeing that no one shall keep on his hat or sit down,
while the auditor is taking his deposition._

In the city of Manila, in the Philipinas Islands, on the seventh of
January, one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and
auditors of the royal Audiencia of the said islands declared that,
whereas certain persons have been imprisoned in the royal prison of
this court, for criminal cases, who, when their depositions were being
taken, sat down and remained with their heads covered, which is in
disrespect of royal justice; and as it is fitting to apply a remedy to