sentences are pronounced after review. Penalty: double the amount in
question to the exchequer.]

170. [They must write the decisions of the court by their own hands,
especially in affairs of importance, as secrets would not be safe
with minor officials. Penalty: six pesos to the court-room.]

171. [The clerks of the said Audiencia or of the criminal court
shall levy no fees on the cases pleaded before the said president,
auditors and alcaldes, to which the fiscal attorneys are a party,
even if the decision is for the said fiscals, with judgment of costs
against the other party; and they shall not put them on the record,
nor collect them from the condemned persons. P.: forty pesos for the
chamber of this Audiencia, and payment of twice the amount collected
to the exchequer.]


_Official reporters_

172-202. [These sections give directions with regard to the duties and
emoluments of the reporters [_relatores_], as minute and precise as
those for the clerks, with similar penalties. The following sections
may be specially noticed:]

176. [Relators are not to ask for cases, but to await the assignment
of the bailiffs [_porteros_].]

179. [Relators are not to buy or sell cases from one another, on pain
of dismissal from office.]