is taken, the report shall be sent, folded and sealed, without other
publication or formal conclusion of the preliminary proceedings, to
our council, that it may decree justice. And our auditors, before
they send the record, shall cause the parties to be cited to come
and appear before the said council in pursuance of the said action,
within the term assigned them, with warning that if they do not appear,
the case will be decided in their absence.

76. _Item_: We command that when anyone by his own authority shall
deprive another of the possession of the Indians whom he shall have,
our Audiencia, prohibiting the said violence and doing justice,
shall restore matters to the state in which they were before the act
was done.

77. _Item_: Let the president and auditors not permit any cacique or
chief to come to this country from those regions without our license.

78. Further: Our auditors, on two days in the week and Saturdays,
if they have no suits of poor persons before them, shall hear cases
of Indians against Indians. We command that the auditor who shall
go on a journey of inspection through the country shall have power
to try cases with regard to the liberty of the Indians, making report
before the Audiencia. Likewise the auditor who shall inspect the prison
of the Indians shall examine the witnesses by personal examination,
and not by report.

79. _Item_: Our president and auditors shall appoint a judge to allot
the waters to the natives for the period during which need thereof
may continue, whenever it may be necessary to do so, and no one shall
be permitted to molest them therein. The said judge shall come to the