are concluded may be known and settled,
they ordered, and they did so order, me, the undersigned clerk of
court, to bring a copy and minutes of those that are concluded, and
[of the suits now pending,] to the next session which shall be held,
in order that they may examine them and provide what is most advisable
therein. By this act it was so provided, ordered, and decreed.

_Don Francisco Tello_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that a book be made in which to enter the fines
applied to the poor of the prison and other pious works, and to the
courts, and the manner of their distribution._

In the city of Manila, on the twenty-eighth 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 the aforesaid Audiencia imposes certain fines of small amounts,
some of which are applied to the poor of the prison, and others to the
courts and other pious works: therefore, because it is advisable that
there should be an account and report of these moneys, and of their
source and the manner of their distribution, they ordered, and they
did so order, a book to be made in which to enter the said penalties,
applied as aforesaid, with the day, month, and year, in what cases
they are imposed, and likewise a report of how they are expended and
distributed; and this shall be done with all clearness, so that the
aforesaid may be evident for all time. This act is to be placed at
the beginning of said book. So they provided, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing the collection of all the debts which are in any
way owed to the royal treasury of the king our sovereign._

In the city of Manila, on the thirtieth of January, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-nine, the president, and auditors of the
royal Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas
the licentiate Geronimo de Salazar y Salzedo, fiscal of this royal
Audiencia for his Majesty, has made them a report, declaring that the
royal treasury of the king our sovereign, in these islands, cannot
succeed in paying many of its debts, on account of failure to collect
many that have been due it for some time past; and has besought and
supplicated them to order that the royal official judges shall, within
twenty days, exert all possible diligence to collect everything that
is due the s