ere the
president dwells, and therein shall be the prison and its warden.

2. It is our will and desire that the said Audiencia shall have
as its district the said island of Lucon and the other Filipinas
islands of the archipelago of China, and the mainland of the same,
whether discovered or yet to be discovered.

_Jurisdiction of the President and Auditors in Civil and Criminal
Cases_

3. We ordain and command that our aforesaid auditors shall have
jurisdiction of all the civil and criminal cases which come to our
said Audiencia on appeal from the governors, alcaldes-mayor, and
other magistrates of the provinces and islands and district subject
to our aforesaid Audiencia, and shall try them by examination and
review, but shall not have jurisdiction of any case in the first
instance--except it be in cases which belong to a superior court [44]
or criminal cases which arise in the city, town, or towns where they
may sit, or within five leagues thereof; and in the civil cases arising
in the town or village where they may sit, the alcaldes-in-ordinary
shall have jurisdiction.

4. _Item_: We ordain that our said judges try such civil and criminal
cases in the same manner in which they would be tried by the judges
and alcaldes of our audiencias of Valladolid and Granada, and that
they may and shall render decisions according to the precedents of
the alcaldes of our audiencias of Valladolid and Granada.

5. _Item_: We command that the governors, alcaldes-mayor, and other
magistrates of the said district shall authorize appeals to be made
from them to our aforesaid Audiencia in the cases in which rightly
and in conformity with these rules it may have jurisdiction, except
those which must go to the councils for settlement in conformity
with the decree made by us, and excepting further the cases involving
less than a certain sum in which by special decrees appeals from the
alcaldes-in-ordinary must go before the governors--which cases we
wish to remain as they are during our pleasure.

6. _Item_: In the civil cases in which judgments are pronounced after
examination and review by our said president and auditors, they are to
be executed without any further appeal or petition, or other recourse,
except when the case involves so large an amount that there may be
ground for a further appeal to our royal person, in conformity with
the provision and decree of our laws and ordinances. In such cases we
desire that the privilege