aid royal treasury for any reason whatever: therefore,
in order to provide a remedy for the aforesaid difficulty, they
ordered, and they did so order, that the said official judges should
be notified that, within the two months next following the date on
which this act shall be made known to them, they shall collect all the
debts that are in any manner owed to the royal treasury, from all and
any persons whatsoever, and from their goods, exerting therein all
necessary diligence. They are to proceed with the necessary rigor
to do this effectively, being warned that if they do not collect
the said debts, to be liquidated within the said period, all that
shall remain uncollected they will be obliged to pay out of their
own property. For the debts which shall not have been liquidated,
they shall observe and execute the act of this royal Audiencia, which
has been made known to them, under the penalty thereof. By this act
they so provided, ordered, and decreed.

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_An act decreeing that it shall be proclaimed in this city, in the
public places thereof, that within three days all natives residing
therein, not servants or otherwise employed, shall leave this city._

In the city of Manila, on the eleventh of February, 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, his Majesty's fiscal in
this royal Audiencia, protector of the natives of these said islands,
has made a report to the effect that there are many natives who are
vagabonds in this city, as a result of which they fall into various
vices dangerous to this community; and that rice and other provisions
have become high-priced and scarce; and as a remedy, he has requested
and petitioned the aforesaid president and auditors to provide in
this regard what is most advisable: therefore, they declared that they
ordered, and they did so order, that, within three days from the date
of this act, it shall be proclaimed to all and whatever natives are and
reside in this city, who are not employed as servants to the Spaniards,
or in some known occupation, that they must leave the city and return
to their own villages, to remain and live therein. Nor shall any other,
now and henceforth, remain in this city, under penalty, to anyone who
shall disobey this decree--for the first time, of one hundred lashes;
and for the second