one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia and Chancillería of these Philipinas Islands
declared that, whereas the king our sovereign, by his royal ordinances,
ordains and orders a book to be made, in which to inscribe the decrees
that he has sent, and shall send, to these islands, and that it contain
an account of their execution: therefore, they thereupon ordered, and
they did so order, the said book to be made, and entrusted it to the
clerk of the court. He shall inscribe therein all the decrees that
the king our sovereign has sent and will send to these islands, so
that henceforth a detailed account of their observation and execution
shall be kept, as his Majesty orders. By this act they so provided,
ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_




_That interlocutory decisions shall be concluded at one demand from
each party._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first of January, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the
royal Audiencia and Chancillería of the Philipinas Islands declared
that, whereas his Majesty ordains and commands by one of the royal
ordinances for this royal Audiencia, that interlocutory decisions
shall be concluded, in trial and review, at one demand from each of
the parties, and that the clerk of court receive [no] other demands: