nse incurred by the Confraternity of La
Sancta Misericordia for the sustenance of the aforesaid prisoners,
and in order that the creditors may be paid, they ordered, and they
did so order, that the said Sangleys imprisoned for debts past due
be notified that they must pay their creditors within six days,
being warned that, if they do not, their services will be sold to
anyone who will give enough to satisfy and pay the creditors, and
to the amount of their debt; but if they cannot be sold, or if the
creditors wish to take them to the amount of the debt, they shall be
delivered to the latter in chains, in order to serve out the amount
of the debt. If the said creditors refuse to receive the prisoners,
they shall be notified to give them food in the said prisons at their
own expense; and, on failure to do so, the prisoners will be set at
liberty. Thus they voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that notaries, whether public or royal, shall be
present at the review of charges against prisoners._

In the city of Manila, on the thirteenth of June, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands, while making a general review
of the charges against prisoners in the royal prison of this court,
ordered, and they did so order, in consideration of the fact that the
notaries, both public and royal, were not present at the said review
with the records of the suits against the prisoners, for which reason
the review was hindered, that the notaries should all be notified,
collectively and singly, to be present at such review of charges, with
the suits that they shall have, in order to report upon them--under
penalty of a fine of four pesos for the first offense, to be given
to the poor of the said prison. For the second offense they shall be
rigorously punished. Thus they voted, ordered, and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act decreeing that the prison warden shall maintain a stricter
watch over the prisoners_.

In the city of Manila, on the twentieth of June, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands, on the occasion of a review
of charges against prisoners, declared that, whereas it has come to
their knowledge that many of the prisoners in the said prison leave it
to eat and sleep, and go to their houses an