own property. They shall immediately report the amount thereof, the
purpose and manner of the expenditure, and the necessity for which
it shall have been made.


_Fines paid into the royal treasury_

68. _Item_: We command that our treasurer shall receive all fines, in
whatever manner they shall be applied by our auditors, whether to our
treasury, or to court rooms, or to other expenses. Our alguazil-mayor
shall take charge of the enforcement of them. The amounts so received
by the said treasurer shall be immediately brought before the officials
of our royal exchequer, who shall deposit them in the chest of the
three keys, and enter in a record everything thus collected from the
said sentences. They shall keep separate the fines for the treasury
and those for court rooms; and our said president and auditors shall
supervise the care thereof taken by the treasurer, who shall at the
end of each year, on account of the said sentences [_condenaciones_]
and the receipt thereof, send to our Council of the Yndias a condensed
report thereof, attested by his signature and that of the officials,
and a certificate from the clerks of the said Audiencia as to the
sentences given.

69. _Item_: There shall be in the possession of our president a
record in which every clerk shall enter in his presence, every week,
the sentences passed in presence of the said clerk, on pain of being
obliged to pay them from his own property. When the president and
auditors shall have need of anything, they shall give a warrant for it
on our treasurer on account of those moneys collected under judicial
sentences passed for similar objects.