ecessary system. Whatever
one or the other may do shall be despatched with all promptness and
punctuality, and no favor--under penalty of a fine of six pesos for
anyone who shall disobey this decree, to be given the poor in the
prison. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almacan_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the royal officials shall give Doctor Antonio
de Morga three hundred pesos from treasury fines, for ornaments and
other things necessary for the chapel._

In the city of Manila, on the tenth of May, one thousand five hundred
and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal Audiencia
and Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands, being in session, declared
that, whereas the chapel of this royal Audiencia is in great want and
need of many things that are very necessary and indispensable, for
its vestments, decoration, and furniture; and whereas, through lack
of money, the said needs have not as yet been supplied: therefore,
to make provision for them, they ordered, and they did so order, that
the official judges of the royal exchequer of the king our sovereign,
in these islands, shall, from any treasury fines in their charge,
immediately give and deliver to Doctor Antonio de Morga, auditor
of this royal Audiencia, three hundred pesos of common gold, which
he shall expend in providing the said chapel with the things most
necessary for it, systematically and carefully. They ordered that he
be given a warrant for the said purpose, in due form. By this act,
they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that secretaries of this court and government may
be attended by slaves with swords._

In the city of Manila, on the thirteenth of May, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the
royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas,
in conformity with the decrees and ordinances given by his Majesty
for his royal Chancilleria of Nueva Espana, residing in the City of
Mexico, and for other audiencias throughout the Yndias, he orders
that secretaries of the court and the government shall have, as a
retinue and guard, slaves with swords, conformably to the dignity
and gravity of their office: therefore, in order that the same be
done in this court, in regard to the secretaries o