under penalty
that whoever disobeys this decree shall be sentenced to row in the
galleys for four years, in a place prescribed, without pay, to which
they declared that they delivered them, and they did so deliver them,
immediately as condemned persons. They declared that they ordered,
and they did so order, the alcalde-mayor of Tondo and of the Parian,
and other magistrates of this city and of these islands, to take great
care in the execution and fulfilment of the aforesaid, under penalty
of being punished. Thus they voted, ordered, and decreed. They ordered
that the said magistrates, each in his own jurisdiction, should make
the necessary inquiries, in order to ascertain who are the Sangleys
that come under the provisions of this act, and the occupations which
they follow.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that no alcaldes-mayor or other magistrates shall
leave their jurisdictions without undergoing residencia; and that
those who shall not have done so, or given a report of the convictions
and fines and tenths of gold which shall have been in their charge,
shall not be appointed._

In the city of Manila, on the fifteenth of June, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that they have been
informed that it is customary to appoint as alcaldes-mayor, and
to other offices of justice, some persons who have not undergone
residencia for offices that they have held before, or who have not
rendered account of the treasury fines and expenses of justice and
war which have been in their charge; also that other persons come to
this city after their terms of office have expired, without waiting
to furnish the said residencias, or being present at them, as is
required--whence it results that his Majesty's royal exchequer is
defrauded, since it does not have the income of the said fines and
tenths of gold. On the other hand, the said residencias not being
taken, as is required, nor the public claims before them paid to
their owners, and many other annoyances resulting, of some importance:
therefore, since it is advisable to remedy the aforesaid condition,
they ordered, and they did so order, now and henceforth, the decree
according to the laws of these realms, providing that no persons who
have held other offices be appointed to offices of the justiciary,
until they have furnished residencia of those that they pr