who shall have given their
favor or assistance. They shall be found guilty in conformity with the
aforesaid, and placed in irons, so that at the first port where they
arrive, they may be handed over, with a copy of the investigations
which shall have been made, to the justice thereof, who shall keep
them prisoners. On the first occasion of the sailing of any ship, he
shall send them as prisoners to this city under a sufficient guard,
to the royal prison of this court, delivering them to the warden
thereof, and taking his testimony in the matter, delivering also
the original of the said investigation. They shall send a complete
and authentic copy of all the above to the fiscal of the said royal
Audiencia, in order that such persons may be punished as their offenses
demand. They ordered unanimously that no person, of whatever rank or
condition, for any cause or reason whatever, shall leave this city,
to go beyond these islands, or to leave them for Nueva Espana,
or any other places unless he has permission in writing from the
said governor, with the necessary conditions. Likewise, it shall
be understood by the captains, masters, pilots, sailors, and other
workmen on any ships whatever, in the manner aforesaid. In order that
this act be exactly enforced, it shall be publicly proclaimed in this
city and the port of Cavite. Copies shall be made of it and affixed
to the doors of the royal houses, so that it may come to the notice
of everyone, and no one may plead ignorance of it, so that one and
all may observe it in the manner aforesaid--under penalty of a fine
of five hundred pesos of common gold, to be applied to the use of the
royal treasury and the interests of the royal exchequer, to which
sum they hold them condemned as soon as they disobey this decree,
besides the deprivation of their offices. This penalty is to be
executed without any favor. Thus they decreed, ordered, and ordained.

_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almacan_

_An act decreeing that one of the auditors shall have charge of
reviewing the charges against prisoners every two months_.

In the city of Manila, on the fifth of August, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands, being assembled, declared that,
whereas there are many prisoners in the royal prison of this court,
whose numbers are constantly increasing, on account of arrests for
vagabondage and othe