n. No
huckster shall buy or retail for his own trade or profit any of the
above things, under any condition, under penalty of confiscation of
everything thus found in his possession which he has bought or traded
for--half to be applied to his Majesty's treasury, and the other half
to go to the informer or constable who exposes him, or to the judge
who gives sentence. Besides this, any person who shall be discovered
not to have fulfilled this obligation shall, if he be a Spaniard,
for the first offense be imprisoned twenty days in the common jail;
and for the second he shall be banished for six months from this
city and the five-league circuit of this court, to a prescribed
residence. If he be a Sangley or an Indian, he shall for the first
offense be given one hundred lashes; and for the second shall serve in
his Majesty's galleys, or at the forge, or in the powder-house, for a
period of two years without pay. Those who obtain the said provisions
by cultivation and labor within a circuit of five leagues, or who bring
them from outside this city to sell them therein, may sell and bring
them freely, so that it be not to the said hucksters or retailers; and
provided that they bring them first to the public square of this city,
or up the river in their vessels, in order that the inhabitants and
dwellers in this city may be provided with whatever they may need,
for the time and space of two natural days. These being passed,
whatever they cannot sell they may carry away, and sell in the other
towns within the said five leagues. Likewise, they ordered that no
person shall go by way of the sea or the river or by highways whence
come the said provisions, to take or buy them from those who should
be bringing them, before the arrival of the latter with them in this
city, within the five leagues, under penalty of one hundred lashes;
and that the alcaldes-in-ordinary, the regidors, and other officials
of this city, and the alcaldes-mayor of Tondo and Bulacan and their
assistants, shall take especial care for the execution and enforcement
of this act in their districts, being warned that they will be punished
at their residencias, and will be charged therewith; and warning will
be given to those who take their residencias that their punishment
be executed. Thus they voted, ordered, and decreed over their names,
and that this act be proclaimed in this city and the suburb of Tondo.

_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Alma