_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_



_An act decreeing that the clerk of court shall bring to the first
meeting a minute of the fiscal suits._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-eighth 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 the
archives of the office of the present clerk of court, many fiscal suits
are pending, as well as others which have been concluded, in which
his Majesty's royal office is interested; but, not knowing which ones
are concluded, the others are not concluded and finished: therefore,
in order that those that are concluded may be known and settled,
they ordered, and they did so order, me, the undersigned clerk of
court, to bring a copy and minutes of those that are concluded, and
[of the suits now pending,] to the next session which shall be held,
in order that they may examine them and provide what is most advisable
therein. By this act it was so provided, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_