given
them as a safeguard of their rights. And in suits for the said amount,
only one real, and no more, may be collected between judge and notary.

Fourth. _Item_: That if the judge shall attest the testimonies in any
civil or criminal suit by flourishes and signatures that he may make,
he cannot collect any fees; since there are none due him except for
the acts that he shall draw up and sign.

Fifth. In order that the said instructions be exactly observed and
fulfilled, they declared that they order, and they did so order, the
alcaldes-in-ordinary and the notaries-public to be informed thereof,
and testimony thereof to be sent to all the alcaldes-mayor, whose
consciences they declared they charged, and they did so charge, with
the fulfilment thereof. Furthermore, in the residencias which shall
be taken from them, he who shall not have fulfilled this decree, or
caused it to be fulfilled, shall be punished and with great rigor. So
they provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the alguazils-mayor and their deputies shall
make the rounds every night._

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 the Philipinas Islands
declared that, whereas it has come to their knowledge that neither
do the alguazils-mayor of this court and city, nor their deputies,
make their rounds throughout the city, as they are under obligation to
do--as a result of which, murders, robberies, and other lawless acts
and crimes occur daily, to the great injury of the citizens: therefore,
to remedy this state of affairs and provide this community with the
necessary guard and order, they ordered, and they did so order, the
said alguazils-mayor and their deputies to be notified that they must
make their rounds during the night, as they are under obligation to do
in this city, without fail, under penalty of a fine of ten pesos of
common gold--to be applied, as soon as anyone shall be condemned for
disobeying this decree, in equal shares to the two royal hospitals
of this city--for the Spaniards and for the natives--in addition to
the loss and interest to any parties which may result and occur. By
this act, they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that there shall be in the courtroom,