_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almazan_
The licentiate _Albaro Cambrano_


Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_





_An act declaring that no use shall be made of the tariff made by
this royal Audiencia._

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 of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas it has been
provided and ordered that the court clerk and other officials of the
Audiencia and ordinary courts shall collect their fees in conformity
with the tariff of the royal Audiencia of the City of Mexico in Nueva
España: therefore, they ordered, and they did so order, that this be
observed and executed exactly as the king, our sovereign, commands;
and that the said officials may not use the tariff which the Audiencia
made concerning the said fees, which is to be withdrawn. No one of
the persons herein mentioned shall collect fees in conformity with
it, under the penalties imposed upon those who collect excessive