shall be necessary in
the suits of prisoners por sala, until their sentences shall be
pronounced._

In the city of Manila, on the seventh of January, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas, in despatching suits of the prisoners in the royal prison of
this court, there might be some delay on account of there being many
persons imprisoned _por sala_ who are never released during the review
of cases made, from which they receive great harm by protracting their
release: therefore, the president and auditors agreed, and they did so
resolve, that, now and henceforth, when they shall review the cases in
the royal prison of this court, on the Saturdays appointed therefor,
they may release those who were arrested _por sala_, if arrested
therein by alcaldes of the court; and that, likewise, they may issue
the acts which shall seem fitting to them concerning the regulation
of criminal cases, until they are definitely concluded by sentence,
so that the cases of the said prisoners may be despatched with the
greater celerity.

By this act they so ordered, provided, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almazan_
The licentiate _Alvaro Cambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_Proclamation_: In the city of Manila, on the twenty-second day of
the month of January, one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine,
the president and auditors of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria
of these islands, who signed their names to the above act, declared
and proclaimed it in public session.

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the interpreters shall not trade or traffic
with the natives._

In the city of Manila, on the seventh of January, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancilleria of these Philipinas Islands declared that,
whereas it has come to their knowledge that the interpreters, as a
result of their occupation as interpreters, and being for the most part
friendly to the natives, seek and attempt to acquire, with trinkets
and other illegal means, jewels, slaves, and other things, at lower
prices than they are valued by the said natives: therefore, in order
to put a stop to the aforesaid evil by applying a remedy for it, they
resolved, ordered, and decreed, that now and henc