with the counsel of the cabildos thereof,
taking into consideration that in such allotments the regidors shall
be preferred, provided they have no other allotments of arable lands
or dwelling-lots. Let such allotments be made without prejudice to the
Indians, retaining for them their arable lands, gardens, and pastures,
so that all shall be cared for.

53. _Item_: We command that our president and auditors shall appoint
no administrative or notarial official, or fill any other permanent
office, even if it be vacant by resignation; nor shall they make such
appointments in the interim before we appoint.

_Ecclesiastical cases_

54. _Item_: We ordain and command that our auditors of our Audiencia,
in cases of unlawful procedure on the part of ecclesiastical judges
[48] shall follow the procedure by and according to which in these
our realms the audiencias of Valladolid and Granada proceed, without
extending it further than is practised in our said audiencias.

55. _Item_: We command that our said Audiencia, governors, and other
magistrates of their district shall ascertain and know if in those
regions there are any persons who have letters of authorization
or apostolic bulls to take possession of the property left by
the archbishops who may die in those regions, or of the vacant
bishoprics. When it is known who has them, let him cause them to be
brought accordingly. First of all, let them appeal from such persons
before his Holiness, nor give nor allow opportunity for them to
be used in any manner, nor for possession to be taken of the said
property or vacant bishoprics. They shall not do, or permit to be
done, any other acts in prejudice of the rights and usages with regard
to bishoprics to which we are entitled with respect to this matter,
or in prejudice of the immemorial custom that possession shall not
be taken. And such authorizations and bulls thus obtained you will
send in their entirety, in the first ships, to be presented before
the members of our Council of the Yndias, together with the appeals
which shall have been taken with regard to the matter.

56. _Item_: When there shall be doubt with regard to the signification
of anything in the contents of an ecclesiastical appointment, or as
to the requisite collation at the hands of the bishops of benefices
for the clergy whom we present, let the president of the Audiencia
decide it.

57. And when in our said Audiencia the aid of the secular arm is asked
f