id offices of the fees connected with
and pertaining to them, and to make any investigation in former suits,
and other matters connected with and pertaining to the said offices
which you and your lieutenants may consider necessary for my service,
the execution of my justice, and the settlement and government of the
said islands and communities. In order that you may enjoy and exercise
the said offices, and carry out and execute my justice as above stated,
all men shall submit to you and give and cause to be given to you all
the support and aid which you ask and need from them. All shall respect
and obey you, and carry out your orders and those of your lieutenants;
and they shall in no wise place or allow to be placed any obstacle
or opposition before you, since I hereby accept and consider you as
accepted in the capacity of the said offices, and in the enjoyment and
exercise of them. I give you power and authority to enjoy and exercise
them and to carry out and execute my justice as above stated. In case
those persons, or any of them, shall not accept you as holding the
said offices, I command whomsoever holds the reins of my justice in
the said islands, as soon as you, the said Gomez Perez Dasmarinas,
ask for them, to give and yield them up to you, and to exercise their
offices no longer--under pain of incurring the punishment incurred by
those who exercise royal and public offices without any authority; for
I hereby suspend and hold them suspended from the said offices. You,
your lieutenants, and other magistrates shall enforce, and cause
to be enforced, all fines and punishments which you may inflict,
which moneys are to be given and delivered to the officials of my
exchequer. Whenever you consider it fitting for my service and for
the execution of my justice for any of those persons, who are now or
may be in future in the said islands, to leave the same and not return
thither, but come before me instead, you shall send them in my name,
and cause them to depart in accordance with the ordinance to this
effect. You shall state to the persons whom you thus send the reasons
for your doing so; but, if it seems best to give the information
secretly, you shall give it enclosed and sealed, and then you shall
send me a similar explanation by another messenger, in order that I
may have knowledge of it. You are warned not to send any one in this
way unless urged by serious reasons. Both parties are to do nothing
contrary to this