d about their business,
and that those who are ordered to imprison them fail to do so,
so that from the aforesaid there has been, and is, a great deal of
disorder, and that the warden thereof does not fulfil and observe his
obligations: therefore, as it is advisable to remedy the aforesaid
evil, they ordered, and they did so order, that Baltasar Martin,
warden of the said prison, be notified that, now and henceforth,
he shall under no consideration permit any prisoner in his charge,
during the time of his imprisonment, to leave the said prison for
eating, sleeping, or any other matter outside of it. Prisoners who
are ordered to be imprisoned shall not be released except by order and
command of the judges by whose orders they are arrested. The aforesaid
warden shall observe the obligations of his office, being warned that,
if he shall act contrary thereto, he will be proceeded against with
the full rigor of the law; in addition to which, the penalties for
not exercising his said office in accordance with his bond and pledge
shall be executed against him. Thus they voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that there shall be no hucksters_.

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-fifth of June, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors assembled
in this royal Audiencia and Chancilleria declared that, whereas
in this said city of Manila all sorts of provisions have become
very dear, on account of the disorder that has existed, and does
exist, through having allowed many Sangleys and native Indians to
go through this city and five leagues round about it, trading and
bartering the said provisions--as, for instance, rice, wine, fowls,
swine, cows, buffalo, game, eggs, geese, kids, cocoanuts, bananas,
pullets, capons, fish, olive-oil, vinegar, and other provisions that
are gathered and raised within the five leagues, or are bought from
outside from the other provinces, islands, villages, and hamlets--and
act as hucksters and retailers of these provisions: therefore,
as it is advisable to provide the necessary remedy in this matter,
in order that the said disorder be avoided, they ordered, and they
did so order, that no person--Spaniard, Sangley, native, or of any
other nation, quality, and rank whatever--shall trade or barter,
now and henceforth, in the said provisions, or in any of them, in
this said city or within the five leagues of its jurisdictio