consciences. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_




_An act decreeing that Doctor Antonio de Morga shall take the
residencia, for the months of January and February, of the deputy
regidors, within the limit of ten days._

In the city of Manila, on the sixteenth of March, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the
royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas,
for the past months of January and February of the present year,
up to the present time, no residencia for the use and exercise of
their offices has been taken of the deputy regidors of this city,
it is fitting and necessary that it be taken immediately: therefore
they appointed, and they did so appoint, Doctor Antonio de Morga,
auditor of this royal Audiencia, for a term of ten days, to take the
said residencia for the said months of the said appointed regidors,
who have filled their said offices, proceeding therein as the king
our sovereign decrees and commands in his royal ordinance. For this
they granted him the authority and commission as fully as is required
by law. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: