as soon as he shall have been judged guilty, the fine to be applied
in equal parts to the royal treasury and court-rooms of this royal
Audiencia. By this act they so declared, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_





_An act decreeing that the officials of this royal Audiencia shall give
bonds at the beginning of every year, and that likewise, they shall
give them for the time during which they have already held office._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first day 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, in order to conform to the decrees and provisions of his
Majesty, and to be just with the parties entering suits, the officials
of this royal Audiencia are under obligation to give bonds that they
will undergo residencia for the right exercise and discharge of their
duties, at the beginning of each year: therefore, because hitherto they
have not given bonds for the time while they have exercised their said
offices, and because they should give them, both for the aforesaid time
and for the future, they resolved and ordered that the commissioners
of examination, attorneys, assessor of taxes, collector of fines,
deputies of the alguazil-mayor, and the prison warden of this court,
shall each one of them, within fifteen days after being notified of
this act, give safe and reliable bonds, before the undersigned clerk
of court, that they will undergo residencia for the use and exercise