the sustenance of this city--although, to remedy
the difficulty, the said president and auditors have enacted other
ordinances and acts--they declared that, in order that the provisions
of the said act may be better fulfilled, and with greater ease and
convenience, and less vexation to the natives, since the inhabitants
of each one of the villages of these environs know what assistance
they owe, they [the Audiencia] ought to order, and they did so order,
that, now and henceforth, the alcaldes-mayor of these environs of
Manila--namely, those of Tondo, Pampanga, Bulacan, Laguna, Mindoro,
Balayan--shall be under the obligation of providing this city from
their said districts with the fowls, swine, and eggs necessary for
its sustenance, at the time and in the quantity and order following.

First, the year shall be apportioned and divided as follows for
each alcalde-mayor: That of Tondo, the first three months of the
year--January, February, and March. That of Pampanga, the next three
months--April, May, and June. That of Bulacan, the next two months--for
the inhabitants of Bulacan, July and August. That of Laguna, the next
two months--for the inhabitants of Laguna, September and October. That
of Mindoro and Balayan, the next two months--November and December.

They are charged and ordered to take particular care to be punctual
in entering upon their months without awaiting any other orders,
and to send to this city each week, until their term is finished, to
the person who shall be nominated and appointed, three hundred laying
hens--the fourth or third part of them pullets, at the rate of four
small ones or two large ones for one laying fowl--and likewise two
thousand eggs, and the number of swine that he may consider proper,
and that can be produced. And the said person, as soon as he shall
receive them, shall distribute them all in due order and form, to those
persons and in the manner ordained and ordered, paying immediately
those who brought them, according to the scale imposed by this royal
Audiencia--advising the natives that during Lent, in place of fowls,
they must send eggs.

In order that this act may be better enforced, and that nothing may
arise to obstruct or hinder its fulfilment (inasmuch as it has been
ordered, by other acts, that all the natives shall raise the said
fowls and swine, under certain penalties), the said alcaldes-mayor are
again charged to exert all care in this matter, so that the natives ma