fficials shall place it in the chest with the three
keys; that they shall enter in a book all that they may collect from
such fines, placing on one side the fines for the royal treasury,
and on the other those of the courts; that the aforesaid officials
shall take care that charge of them is given to the said treasurer;
that the latter, at the end of each year, shall audit the said fines;
and that then a succinct report of them shall be sent to the royal
Council of the Indias, signed with his name and the names of the
other officials, together with the certification of the court notary
of this royal Audiencia, of the fines that shall have been imposed:
therefore, in conformity with the said royal ordinance, and in
order that its provisions may be strictly enforced, they ordered,
and they did so order, that the official judges of his Majesty's
royal exchequer in these islands be notified to observe and enforce
thoroughly the provisions of the said royal ordinance of which mention
is here made, _in toto_, without failing in any point, each one in
matters concerning him, just as is here declared. Nor shall the said
fines be expended, under any consideration, otherwise than shall be
specified by this royal Audiencia, under penalty that whoever shall
order them otherwise disbursed shall repay the amount from his own
pocket. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_Bibliographical Data_

All documents in this volume--translated from either the originals or
transcriptions thereof--are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general
de Indias, Sevilla; their pressmarks are indicated as follows:

1. _Letter from Morga_, June 30, 1597--"Simancas-Secular; Audiencia
de Filipinas; cartas y expedientes del presidente y oidores de dicha
Audiencia vistos en el Consejo; anos 1583 a 1599; est. 67, caj. 6,
leg. 18."

2. _Administration of hospital._--The same as No. 1.

3. _Letters from Tello_, 1597.--The same as No. 1--except letter of
June 22, "Simancas-Secular; cartas y espedientes del gobernador de
Filipinas vistos en el Consejo; anos 1567 a 1599; est. 67, caj. 6,
leg. 6."

4. _Letter from Ronquillo_.--The same as No. 1.

5. _Report by Morga_.--The same as No. 1.

6. _Recommendations as to reforms_.--"Simancas-Secular; Audiencia
de Filipinas; cartas y espedientes de personas seculares de dicha
Audiencia vistos en el Consejo; ano's de 1565 a 1594; est. 67, caj. 6,
leg. 34.