disobeying this decree, in equal shares to the two royal hospitals
of this city--for the Spaniards and for the natives--in addition to
the loss and interest to any parties which may result and occur. By
this act, they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_



_An act decreeing that there shall be in the courtroom, a list of
the charges fixed by the royal tariff, and that each notary shall
keep one in his house._

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 the Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas the king our sovereign, in his royal ordinances, decrees
and orders that a list of the charges fixed by the royal tariff be
placed in the court-room, and that likewise each notary whom it shall
concern shall keep a copy in his house, for its better observation
and execution: therefore, in order that the aforesaid may be exactly
fulfilled, they ordered, and they did so order, a complete copy of
the said royal tariff to be made by this royal Audiencia. It shall
be set forth in a list, and placed in the court-room; and all the
notaries and persons mentioned therein, and those whom it may concern,
shall make a copy, and keep the same in their houses and affixed to a
tablet in some public place, where it may be seen by those transacting
business. This they shall do and fulfil within one week after this