caldes-in-ordinary thereof
shall be seated near the auditors.

26. _Item_: We command that the president and auditors of our
Audiencia shall be present on every day that is not a holiday, in the
court-rooms, to hear the statement of cases [_relaciones_]--three
hours on the days when cases are not heard [_no de audiencia_] and
four hours on days when hearings are given [_de audiencia_], according
to the rules of our audiencias of Valladolid and Granada. He who is
absent without sending a sufficient excuse shall be fined half his
pay for that day, by the person whom the president shall appoint,
whose report in the matter shall receive faith and credit, so that no
auditor shall hold or try the said cases in his own house without being
joined with all the others, as has been said with regard to the said
Audiencia, to hear and determine pleas and matters brought before it.

27. _Item_: No auditor shall sit when a suit is begun that will
affect him, his sons, fathers, sons-in-law, or brothers, or when
he shall be challenged. As regards the penalty for challenging our
president and auditors, the ordinances of Madrid shall be followed,
the fine contained therein being doubled.

28. _Item_: Our president and auditors shall have no authority to
bring before our Audiencia in the first instance any suit of their
own, of their wives, or of their children. The said suits shall be
tried by the alcaldes-in-ordinary, and shall come on appeal before
our council of the Yndias if the case involves a thousand pesos or
upwards. If the other party to the suit desires to appeal to our
Audiencia and not to the council, he may do so; but the auditor,
his wife, and his children shall have no such right of choice.

29. Further: The said auditors shall not appear for others in the
said Audiencia or in any other, nor shall they undertake to arbitrate
cases that may come before them, except that cases already begun may
be submitted to all the auditors of the Audiencia for arbitration,
and except where our permission may be given--under penalty of being
suspended from the Audiencia for thirty days and losing salary for
two months.

30. Our said president and auditors shall have no share with an
advocate or commissioner [_receptor_] in his fees or salary. Nor shall
they have the right to receive anything but food from any corporation
or individual, or other person, who shall have been interested in a
suit within a year previous, or who shall expe