rks' offices.]

310. _Item_: We ordain and command that our said president and auditors
shall make a tariff of fees, in accordance with which our chief clerk
of mines and the other officials who have no official tariff shall
take their fees; and that they shall do the same in all the governments
of their district, paying consideration to the nature of the offices,
the region where they are situated, the expenses there, and the lack
of supplies that may exist therein. These tariffs of fees are to be
sent when made, with the signatures of the president and auditors,
to our said council, to be examined and confirmed; and in the interim
the tariffs which shall be made shall be observed.

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311. _Item_: We command that in the house of our Audiencia there
shall be a room in which there shall be a cabinet wherein shall be
deposited the records of cases determined by the said Audiencia, after
the decrees of execution [_executorias_] have been transcribed, the
records of each single year being placed one above another. The court
clerk shall place on each record of a case a strip of parchment stating
the persons and the subject of the case. This shall be done within
five days after the decree of execution has been transcribed. And
in another part of the said room another cabinet shall be placed, in
which shall be deposited the grants, decrees, and documents pertaining
to the state, preeminence, and jurisdiction of the said Audiencia and
provincial court [_provincia_] of its district. All shall be locked
and the key be kept by the chancellor [_chanciller_]. All records
shall be covered with parchment.

312. _Item_: We ordain and command that whenever an event occurs
for which no provision or decree is made in these ordinances, and in
the other decrees, provisions, and ordinances enacted for the said
provinces, and in the laws of Madrid made in the year [one thousand]
five hundred and two, and the provisions therein, [1] and command
that our president and auditors, clerks and advocates, and other
officials of our said Audiencia shall each, within thirty days,
take the copy of this ordinance.

313. _Item_: We command that in the said Audiencia there shall be a
record in which shall be entered all royal orders [_cedulas_] which
we shall send or shall have sent to them; and they shall take care
to observe and obey the same. And since it is our will that the said
articles and ordinances above written shall be observed,