d back to those courts. Penalty:
fourfold fine to the exchequer.]

166. [Fees are to be charged only for the record of such judicial acts
as are actually before them, although the whole record is transmitted
therewith. Previous penalty.]

167. [Charges of violation of their oath are to be preferred by the
fiscal in the event of failure to attend on him with the weekly fines,
or of making excessive charges.]

168. [Clerks must be present half an hour before the court convenes;
and petitions must be handed in before the president and auditors
take their seats in court. Penalty: two pesos of gold paid to the
court-room.]

169. [They must affirm with their signatures the sentences given after
review by the president and auditors, and written in a book kept in
the president's room, before the third day next following. This is
done so that the sentences may be known, and to avoid fraud, as the
sentences are pronounced after review. Penalty: double the amount in
question to the exchequer.]

170. [They must write the decisions of the court by their own hands,
especially in affairs of importance, as secrets would not be safe
with minor officials. Penalty: six pesos to the court-room.]

171. [The clerks of the said Audiencia or of the criminal court
shall levy no fees on the cases pleaded before the said president,
auditors and alcaldes, to which the fiscal attorneys are a party,
even if the decision is for the said fiscals, with judgment of costs
against the other party; and they shall not put them on the record,
nor collect them from the condemned persons. P.: forty pesos for the
chamber of this Audiencia, and payment of twice the amount collected
to the exchequer.]

_Official reporters_

172-202. [These sections give directions with regard to the duties and
emoluments of the reporters [_relatores_], as minute and precise as
those for the clerks, with similar penalties. The following sections
may be specially noticed:]

176. [Relators are not to ask for cases, but to await the assignment
of the bailiffs [_porteros_].]

179. [Relators are not to buy or sell cases from one another, on pain
of dismissal from office.]

189. [The words of witnesses in criminal cases are not to be reported
at the public statement of the case, for they are to be seen by the
auditors alone, without being entrusted to anyone else. Penalty:
thirty pesos to the exchequer.]

192. [Relators and other officers are to live near the Audienci