soon as they declared him convicted and did convict him. They ordered
that the receiver of fines of this royal Audiencia shall observe the
aforesaid most carefully for the proper execution and fulfilment of
this act--which, in order that no one may pretend ignorance of it,
shall be made known to all the persons whom it concerns. By this act
it was so provided, ordered, and affirmed.


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


Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_




_An act decreeing that the royal official judges in the fulfilment of
their duties shall observe the instructions, decrees, and ordinances
of his Majesty._

In the city of Manila, on the nineteenth of January, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancillería of these Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas by the ordinances, decrees, and instructions of his Majesty,
orders have been given to the official judges of the royal exchequer