is royal Audiencia, to audit the said accounts,
and to continue and finish them according to the order given to the
said licentiate Albaro Cambrano--for which, they granted, and they
did so grant, him authority and commission as fully as is required
by law. By this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that, on account of the end and death of the
licentiate Albaro Cambrano (whom may God keep!), the licentiate
Tellez Almacan is to continue, close, and complete the accounts of
the royal exchequer._

In the city of Manila, on the sixteenth of March, 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 licentiate Albaro Cambrano, late auditor of this royal
Audiencia (whom may God have in His holy glory!), to whom was assigned
the auditing of the accounts of his Majesty's royal exchequer--which
are at present being audited by the royal judicial officials--is now
dead and passed from this present life: therefore, in order that on
this account the auditing may not be delayed and fail of prosecution,
as is fitting, and as the king our sovereign commands in his royal
ordinance, in place of the licentiate Albaro Cambrano they appointed,
and they did so appoint, the licentiate Tellez de Almacan, auditor
of this royal Audiencia, to continue, close, and finish the said
auditing, according to the commission given to the said licentiate
Albaro Cambrano, for which they gave him commission in legal form. By
this act, they so voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me: _Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the city shall give information regarding its
place of seating in the cathedral of this city._

In the city of Manila, on the sixteenth of March, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands declared that,
in order to assign to the cabildo, magistracy, and administration of
this city the place of seating that it must keep in the cathedral:
in order to ascertain the custom hitherto followed in the aforesaid
matter, and in order to provide what is necessary concerning it,
they ordered, and they did so order, the said cabildo, magistracy,
and administration of this city to give an account of the part and
place in which it has been regularly seate