ps sailing from
these islands for Nueva Espana, in the form that his Majesty orders
and commands. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that a book shall be prepared in which are registered
the citizens of these islands, with their merits and services_.

In the city of Manila, on the nineteenth of December, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas the king our sovereign, in one of his ordinances, orders and
commands the aforesaid president and auditors to prepare a book wherein
to register the inhabitants and dwellers in these islands, and inscribe
their merits and services, and the rewards and remunerations which
have been given them in recompense--a copy of which shall be sent
him in his royal Council of the Indias, so that, when they ask for
rewards, they shall be given what they deserve: therefore, in order
that the royal will of the king our sovereign be strictly observed,
enforced, and fulfilled, they ordered, and they did so order, the
said book, for the said purpose, to be made immediately; and when all
that his Majesty orders and commands in the said royal ordinance is
finished and completed, copies shall be made in duplicate and sent on
the first ships leaving these islands for Nueva Espana, to the king
our sovereign in his said royal Council. By this act they so voted,
ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the treasurer of the royal exchequer shall
collect all the fines that are in any wise imposed by this royal
Audiencia_.

In the city of Manila, on the nineteenth of December, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the
royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas the
king our sovereign, in one of his ordinances, orders and commands the
said Audiencia, that the treasurer of his Majesty's royal exchequer
in these islands shall collect all the fines that are in any wise
imposed by this royal Audiencia, which are to be applied both to
the use of the royal treasury, and to the courts and other judicial
expenses; that the chief alguazil of this court shall have charge of
executing them; that whatever the said treasurer collects, he is to
present immediately to the officials of the royal exchequer; that
the aforesaid o