and go where they will,
dressed and armed like the rest of the people. They are not often
tried; and not only do they not pay the penalty for their crimes,
but even commit other atrocities and crimes here.

105. The ordinary judges are lax in their duties, are not prompt in
finishing the business of the advocates, and in fact, neglect this
duty greatly. They do not patrol or visit suspected places, nor watch
over the government, supplies, and civil affairs of their districts.

106. The chief aim of the alcaldes-mayor, corregidors, and assistants,
is trade. They buy up by wholesale the products of the land, especially
rice and other food supplies, exactly as is said above concerning
the religious of certain curacies, and their interpreters and helpers.

107. They try old suits of which they cannot know the details, and
stir up many suits and processes among the Indians, at great expense
to the latter.

108. Neither they nor their clerks observe the schedule when levying
the fees. In their own behalf they afflict and trouble the Indians
with outrageous requirements, making them cut wood, serve as rowers,
and perform other services.

109. The first thing that they do, on entering their provinces,
is to lay hands immediately on all the property of the communities,
and to use it for their own advantage. When their offices expire,
they seldom return the property to the community.

110. If they collect any fines belonging to the royal treasury, or to
expenses of justice, they conceal them, keeping no book or account
sufficient to enable such fines to be demanded from them. The same
is true of the tenths of gold.

111. It is not advantageous for these alcaldes-mayor and corregidors,
or their assistants or friends, to receive the royal collections, for
they perpetrate numberless frauds and cheats, both against the royal
treasury and against the Indians; and there is no remedy for this,
as they themselves administer justice. They hold the collections in
their possession for a long time, trading with them, and the royal
treasury is the loser.

112. They leave their provinces when and how they please, without
permission of those in authority; and when others are appointed
to their offices, they immediately depart, in order not to have
their residencia taken. Thus they are not to be found in office,
and escape being made to give satisfaction for the injuries that they
have committed, and being prosecuted by justice.

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