_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_.




_An act decreeing that Doctor Antonio de Morga, auditor of this
royal Audiencia, shall audit the accounts of the city for the past
year, 1598._

In the city of Manila, on the sixteenth day of the month of March,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas the auditing of the accounts of this city for the past year,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight, was committed to the
licentiate Albaro Çambrano, late auditor of this royal Audiencia
(whom may God keep in His holy glory!), and because by his end and
death the auditing, continuation, and balancing of the accounts,
as his Majesty orders and commands in his royal ordinance, have
been neglected: therefore, they appointed, and they did so appoint,
in place of the said licentiate Alvaro Çambrano, Doctor Antonio de
Morga, auditor of this royal Audiencia, to audit the said accounts,
and to continue and finish them according to the order given to the
said licentiate Albaro Çambrano--for which, they granted, and they
did so grant, him authority and commission as fully as is required
by law. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_