for public works for which
no other maintenance is provided, and for no other purpose. The said
license in the aforesaid cases shall be granted, if such towns have
no endowments [_propios_].

47. _Item_: When any one shall petition for an assignment of any town
lots or agricultural lands in the city or town where our Audiencia
shall reside, then after conference in the cabildo, notice of the
judgment of the cabildo shall be given to our president, by means
of two regidors deputed therefor. And when they have made their
examination, that upon which the president together with the two
deputies shall determine, shall be carried out, being attested by all
in the presence of the clerk of the cabildo, that he may record it in
the council-book. Petitions for assignments of lands and waters for
machinery shall be presented before the president, who shall transmit
them to the said cabildo that they may confer thereon. They shall
return them by a regidor, who shall report their conclusions, so that
after examination the president may determine that which is fitting.

48. _Item_: Our said president and auditors shall cause to be made
a record-book in which shall be entered the names of citizens of
this territory, the service performed by each one, and the reward
received by him, either in money, by way of fees, or in other ways,
or by appointment, and to what offices. The said record shall be
kept with great care, together with the record of votes, so that when
any person makes a statement of services before them they may report
their opinions in his case.

49. _Item_: We command that our Audiencia, at the end of the two
months during which the two regidors appointed as inspectors of
weights and measures have served, shall receive from them an account
of their service.

50. _Item_: We command that our Audiencia shall have authority to
order the execution of the ordinances made for the provinces under
their jurisdiction, after being filed by them, and during the time
while they are being sent to us for confirmation.

51. _Item_: That an auditor every year by turns, beginning with the
most recently appointed, shall audit the accounts rendered by the
cabildo of the city where our Audiencia shall reside.

52. Further: When the president and auditors shall be about to allot
the lands, waters, watering-places for cattle, and pastures of any
town, city, or village, among the persons who are to be settled
therein, they shall do so