first following the day on which they shall have been notified of
this act, shall balance and close each and every account that the
royal treasury holds with any individuals of these islands. They
are warned that whoever shall not so fulfil and execute his orders,
after the expiration of said time, will be charged with everything,
and ordered to pay all accounts not balanced and liquidated. By this
act they so declared, ordered and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_



_An act decreeing that all the officials of the royal Audiencia shall
take copies of the royal ordinances._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first day of the month of January,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas, in one of the royal ordinances, it is ordered that all the
officials of this royal Audiencia, and other persons whom they concern,
shall keep in their possession a copy of the said ordinances; therefore
they ordered, and they did so order, that within thirty days after the
publication of this act, each of the said officials shall take a copy
of the said royal ordinances and keep it in his possession; and each
one, so far as he is concerned, shall observe and execute them, as his
Majesty orders therein, under the penalties therein contained--under
the penalty that if, after the expiration of said time, the said copy
has not been made, they shall be immediately convicted and fined in