ons made out in public form
must be given to the parties.]

260-264. [Taxing of charges; discharge of commissioners on completion
of commission; commissioners may not be employed if they are relatives
of clerks, attorneys, or advocates, or if they have boarded or lodged
with them within a year; procedure on second trial.]

265-272. [Procedure in the assignment of commissions; cases accepted
must not be thrown up; requests of parties for summoning of witnesses
are not to be entered on the record; testimony is to be taken before
local magistrates, if so desired; rights of commissioners-in-ordinary
and of supernumerary commissioners to assignments.]

273. _Item_: A commissioner of inquiry may be appointed as soon as
there shall be two court clerks appointed, or even one, that possible
frauds may be avoided.

274-277. [Procedure in the event of challenge of commissioner;
procedure for appointment of commissioners within and without the
five leagues; oath of commissioner for outside cases; commissioners
and clerks to take down testimony themselves, with no other person
present.]

278. _Item_: No supernumerary commissioner shall be appointed
without being examined, and giving bonds for the administration
of his office. No dependent or member of a household of our said
president and auditors may be appointed to such commissionership,
under penalty that the clerk appointed contrary to this ordinance
shall lose all fees and salary for the time during which he shall
occupy himself with the commissionership.

279-280. [The number of lines on a page in a record of inquiry; the
number of words in a line; the excellence of handwriting required;
the dating of reports of examinations.]

Bailiffs

281-284. [The bailiff's [_portero_] duties; his fees those of the
bailiffs of the royal council; a lodging to be given him in the
building of the Audiencia; tardiness fined one peso; excessive fees
to be repaid sevenfold to the exchequer; presents for good news
not to be accepted--penalty, fourfold repayment to the exchequer;
the bailiff to enforce rules of precedence.]

Jail Wardens

285-286. [The warden [_carcelero_] shall accept no gifts from
prisoners or others for them; shall not oppress them, or relax their
imprisonment, or dismiss or arrest them without warrant; his oath.]

287. [His fees are those assigned to alguazils in the official table
of fees.]

288. [A separate ward must be provided for women.]

289. [Nigh