eforth, no interpreter
shall buy from the said natives any jewels, slaves, or other valuables,
except in the presence of the magistrate, under penalty of confiscation
of what shall have been bought by the interpreter violating this law,
half of which is immediately to be applied to his Majesty's treasury,
and the other half to the expenses of justice; and furthermore, he
shall not be allowed to exercise the said office any longer. By this
act they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almazan_
The licentiate _Cambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

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 Philipinas
Islands, who signed their names to the above act, declared and
proclaimed it in public session. Diego de Mercado and Juan Garcia,
interpreters, were present and were notified.

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the probate judge shall examine the accounts
of guardians of minors in this court._

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 this court there are many minors--encomenderos,
and others--whose property and effects are in charge of guardians
and curators; and because the said property might be spent and
dissipated without these guardians being able afterward to give
an account thereof to their said minors, which would result to
the great harm and prejudice of the latter: therefore, to remedy
the aforesaid, they resolved, and they did so resolve and decree,
that the common probate judge, now or hereafter, in these islands be
empowered to examine, not only in trust but on the party's petition,
the accounts of all the guardianships and curatorships of minors in
this court, and of the administration and conservation of the same;
and he may proceed against those of whom he may be suspicious, or who
administer and manage dishonestly, or waste, the goods and effects of
the said minors; and may make in the case all the inquiries suitable
and necessary, until he shall hand down a definite decision in such
cases--for which, and for everything annexed to and pertaining to it,
they gave him the requisite p