l incur the penalty of being burned alive by fire,
beside having all his goods confiscated to the treasury of his Majesty.

_Item_: We ordain and command that none of the said Sangleys shall
dare to make or coin any sort of silver or gold money, or of any other
metal, nor shall they clip or scrape money already made, or make use
of it, under the penalties contained in the above ordinance.

_Item_: We ordain and command that none of the aforesaid shall cohabit
or have carnal intercourse with any [Spanish?] woman or Christian
Indian woman, under the penalty that, in such case, he shall incur
a punishment of two hundred lashes and ten years in the galleys,
as criminals sentenced to row, without pay, and of the confiscation
of one-half his property, to be applied as above stated.

Further, we ordain and command, that none of the said Sangleys,
for any reason or consideration, shall buy from negro slaves or
freemen, Indians or mulattoes, any gold jewels, trinkets, garments,
or any other articles which they sell; but when the said Sangleys go
to them, they shall arrest them and take them before the magistrate,
under penalty that whoever shall disobey this decree shall fall under
and incur the penalties incurred by robbers, and said penalties will
be rigorously executed on their persons and goods.

And in order that the aforesaid shall be observed and executed without
remission of penalty, and so that no one may pretend ignorance, we
order that these ordinances shall be publicly proclaimed in the public
square, in all other public places of this city, in the Sangley Parian,
and in the village of Tondo, in order that everyone may know of them;
and in each one of the said places a copy of them, written in the
Chinese language, shall be posted. No person shall dare to remove the
said placards, under penalty of two hundred lashes. We order all the
alcaldes-mayor of the environs of this city to have them published and
made known to the natives. We request and charge all the religious to
give instructions to the said Indians, and cause them to understand
these laws and ordinances, and the penalties attached thereto. Given
in the city of Manila, on the twenty-sixth of January, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almacan_
The licentiate _Albaro Cambrano_

By order of the royal Audiencia:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_That the official jud