he amount that must be levied
for each fine--for, by not executing the penalties thereof daily,
there are many oversights and no little remissness in the fulfilment
of each one's obligations: therefore, in order that the requisite
system be observed in everything, they decreed that, by giving the
said Pedro Fernandez de Sanctofimia the present sworn memorandum
of fines to be imposed upon everyone, he shall immediately receive
his orders thereby regarding what he is commanded to levy for each
fine. The latter he shall do immediately, as the said memorandum shall
indicate, without any investigation or mandate preceding. The orders
that he shall so give shall be executed by the bailiff or alguazil
of this royal Audiencia, whenever they shall be issued. Whatever
the latter shall collect he shall deliver to the said collector of
fines, who shall take charge of it, and enter it carefully in a book,
that he may give strict and clear account of each fine collected. And
they charged each other's consciences with the fulfilment of all the
above. By this act they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing the making of a book in which shall be entered
the decrees sent and to be sent by his Majesty to these islands,
in order that they may be observed and executed._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first 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
declared that, whereas the king our sovereign, by his royal ordinances,
ordains and orders a book to be made, in which to inscribe the decrees
that he has sent, and shall send, to these islands, and that it contain
an account of their execution: therefore, they thereupon ordered, and
they did so order, the said book to be made, and entrusted it to the
clerk of the court. He shall inscribe therein all the decrees that
the king our sovereign has sent and will send to these islands, so
that henceforth a detailed account of their observation and execution
shall be kept, as his Majesty orders. By this act they so provided,
ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_That interlocutory decisions shall be concluded at one demand from
each party._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first of January, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the