public places thereof, that within three days all natives residing
therein, not servants or otherwise employed, shall leave this city._

In the city of Manila, on the eleventh of February, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the
royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas the
licentiate Geronimo de Salazar y Salzedo, his Majesty's fiscal in
this royal Audiencia, protector of the natives of these said islands,
has made a report to the effect that there are many natives who are
vagabonds in this city, as a result of which they fall into various
vices dangerous to this community; and that rice and other provisions
have become high-priced and scarce; and as a remedy, he has requested
and petitioned the aforesaid president and auditors to provide in
this regard what is most advisable: therefore, they declared that they
ordered, and they did so order, that, within three days from the date
of this act, it shall be proclaimed to all and whatever natives are and
reside in this city, who are not employed as servants to the Spaniards,
or in some known occupation, that they must leave the city and return
to their own villages, to remain and live therein. Nor shall any other,
now and henceforth, remain in this city, under penalty, to anyone who
shall disobey this decree--for the first time, of one hundred lashes;
and for the second offense, one year of service at the oar in his
Majesty's galleys, without pay--on whom they declared that, as soon as
they condemned them (and they did so condemn them), the said penalty
shall be executed without leniency. In order that it may come to the
notice of all the said natives, and that no one may pretend ignorance,
this act shall be proclaimed in the Tagal language, in this city, in
the public places thereof, and in the hamlet of Tondo, and testimony
shall be taken thereof. Thus they declared, ordered, and decreed.