esirous of making them useful, that some day, influenced by the
benefits of social life, they may enter the consoling pale of our
Holy Mother, the Catholic Church, I hereby decree the following:

ARTICLE 1. The alcaldes and military and political governors of
provinces in whose district there may be tribes or rancherias of
the aforesaid Negritos or of other infidels shall proceed with the
consent of the devoted curas parrocos, whose charity I implore for
them, through their head men or capitanes, to induce them to take
the necessary steps to assemble in villages, lands being given
for that purpose, in places not very near to Christian pueblos,
and seeds of grains and vegetables being furnished that they may
cultivate the land.

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ART. 3. Two years after the pueblo shall have been formed the
inhabitants thereof shall pay a moderate tribute, which shall
not for the present exceed one real per head, the youths and
children being excepted, obtaining in compensation the usufruct
of the lands which they may hold as their own property so long as
they do not abandon the cultivation, being able to sell to others
under the same conditions with the knowledge of the authority of
the district.

ART. 4. Said authorities and also the priests shall maintain
the greatest zeal and vigilance that the Christian pueblos do
not intrude on those of the infidels or Negritos, neither that
individuals live among them nor that they harass or molest them
on any pretext whatsoever under penalty of being punished. * * *

ART. 5. As I have understood that if the Negritos refuse social
life it is on account of their being warned by the Christians
who employ them in cutting wood, bamboo, and bejuco, and in the
collection of other products of the woods which they inhabit,
the chiefs of the provinces and the justices of the peace shall
take care that no one enters into such contracts with the Negritos
without competent authorization, leaving his name in a register
in order that if he fail to pay the true value of the articles
satisfactory to the Negritos or mistreats them it will be possible
to fix the blame on him and to impose the proper penalty.

Article 6 states that--

It shall not be necessary for the Negritos to embrace the Catholic
faith, but the priests shall go among them to exa