of this court, collect fees for the trial of
suits and other acts thereof in entirety from each of the parties at
whose petition they may take action, saying that they should pay them
entirely: therefore, because the aforesaid proceeding is to the great
harm and damage of the parties, to make them thus pay what they do not
owe, and since the aforesaid evil should be remedied, they ordered,
and they did so order, now and henceforth, that the said notaries
and reporter, or either of them, shall not collect in any way, or in
any case, the fees owed by one of the said parties from the others,
but that each one shall pay what he owes. On account of not paying the
total fees, the party who would wish his suit to be tried, shall not
have it delayed; but, as soon as he has paid his share, his suit shall
be despatched with all celerity. And they declared that they charged,
and they did so charge, their consciences with this; and furthermore,
that whoever shall disobey this decree shall be convicted and sentenced
to pay a fine four times as great as the sum thus exacted, for his
Majesty's treasury, in addition to the fines which those who exact
excessive fees incur. By this act they so declared, ordered, and
decreed; and that this act shall apply to any person whom it concerns.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the attorneys shall not speak in suits wherein
they shall not have been authorized to do so._

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 attorneys of this royal Audiencia often take
it upon themselves to speak and make allegations in suits in which they
have no authority, and in which they have not appeared as parties to
the said case, certain nullifications can be created--for which reason
the said case may be brought again, and the parties thereto subjected
to considerable injury and expense: therefore, to obviate the said
injuries and other inconveniences of reconsideration, they ordered,
and they did so order, that, now and henceforth, neither the said
attorneys nor any one of them shall take it upon himself to speak,
nor shall they speak in any suit or case, unless authorized therefor
by the party in whose favor they shall speak, or unless he has proved
himself to be a party to the suit-