the sum of six pesos of common gold, the latter being applied to the
court-rooms of this royal Audiencia. By this act they so declared,
ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_



_An act decreeing that no alcalde-in-ordinary, notary, commissioner,
attorney, or any other official of this royal Audiencia, or of the
ordinary court, shall go outside this city without license._

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 the alcaldes-in-ordinary of this city, notaries,
commissioners, attorneys, and other officials, both of this royal
Audiencia and of the ordinary court, whenever they see fit, leave
the city without license--whence results much harm to the litigants,
on account of the delay and unsatisfactory conduct of their business,
beside many other inconveniences resulting therefrom: therefore, to
remedy this evil, they decreed and ordered that, now and henceforth,
no alcalde-in-ordinary, commissioner, attorney, notary-public,
or other official of this royal Audiencia or of the ordinary court,
shall go anywhere outside of this city, without the express permission
of this royal Audiencia, under a penalty of a fine of six pesos of
common gold, in which sum anyone adjudged guilty of the contrary shall
be immediately fined--one-half for the poor in the prison, and the