Audiencia: therefore, in order that the aforesaid shall be exactly
fulfilled, they ordained and decreed that it should be communicated
to the said attorneys of this royal Audiencia, that when, in the name
of any natives, they shall bring suits against other natives, before
bringing these suits they shall notify this royal Audiencia--in order
that, if thought best, they may be docketed, and if not, that the cost
and expense may be avoided. Those which shall be prosecuted shall be
docketed by formal decree of this royal Audiencia, and in no other
manner. They must strive to be brief and precise in everything. The
notaries both of this royal Audiencia and the other jurisdictions
thereof are ordered, in the collection of fees from said natives,
to employ great moderation, and to despatch their business promptly,
in order that all his Majesty's orders and decrees may be observed
and fulfilled. Moreover, they commanded that the aforesaid notaries
be notified of this act. So they provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_




_An act decreeing that the attorneys shall go, within three days, to
the office of the clerk of court, to settle suits that are concluded._

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 these Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas, on account of the non-appearance of the attorneys of this