es from said natives,
to employ great moderation, and to despatch their business promptly,
in order that all his Majesty's orders and decrees may be observed
and fulfilled. Moreover, they commanded that the aforesaid notaries
be notified of this act. So they provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the attorneys shall go, within three days, to
the office of the clerk of court, to settle suits that are concluded._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-first 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, on account of the non-appearance of the attorneys of this
royal Audiencia at the office of the clerk of court for this royal
Audiencia, to settle and otherwise regulate suits and cases which are
concluded, in order that they may be reviewed and decided, there is
great delay in their revision and decision, so that the interested
parties are subjected to great harm and annoyance: therefore,
to remedy this, they ordered, and they did so order, that all the
attorneys of this royal Audiencia shall be notified that, whenever
the said suits are concluded, wherever they shall be brought, within
the three days first following they shall appear at the office of
the above-mentioned clerk of court, and there settle and dispose of
them, so that there shall be nothing wanting, and that they may have
the necessary despatch--being warned that, if they do not thus come
within the said term, the said clerk can settle the said processes,
and send them to the reporter for him to review them in court. And if,
by the said attorneys' negligence, the parties suffer any harm, the
said attorneys shall pay them for it in their persons and goods. By
this act they so declared, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the notaries shall not collect their fees
entirely from each of the parties, but that each one shall pay the
part he owes._

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 it has come to their knowledge that both the
notaries and the reporter [_relator_] [2] of this royal Audiencia and
of the other jurisdictions