his city, and the informer or the judge who
shall execute this decree. At this price those who have fowls shall be
obliged to give them to anyone who would buy. The justices are charged
and ordered to take care to have this scale observed and enforced in
their jurisdictions, with the utmost strictness. It shall be proclaimed
and published therein, that no one may plead ignorance thereof.

_That provisions shall be allowed to be sold freely._ Further, they
ordered that all provisions shall be freely offered, and those who
bring them shall sell them at their pleasure and free will: and no
person in this city, or its suburbs and settlements, shall dare to
take by force, or against their will, from the Indians or Sangleys,
what they bring to sell, or cause them any injury or molestation
therein, under penalty of being severely punished.

_That those who sell fish and other provisions shall maintain the
fixed rates_. They also ordered that those who sell fish and other
provisions, shall abide by the fixed rates which are established,
under the penalties imposed for the violation of them. This act
shall be publicly proclaimed in this city, and in the Sangley Parian,
and in the settlements of Tondo, in order that all may know of it.

_Don Francisco Tello_
_Doctor Antonio de Morga_
The licentiate _Tellez Almazan_
The licentiate _Albaro Cambrano_

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act relating to the importation to this city, from the neighboring
provinces, of fowls, swine, and eggs, for the ordinary allotment_.

In the city of Manila, on the seventh day of the month of December,
one thousand five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria residing in the said city,
examined the petition of the protector of the natives of these
islands, presented in the name of the inhabitants of Tondo and its
district, in regard to their ordering that this city of Manila should
be provided with the fowls and swine necessary for its sustenance,
from all the provinces and villages of this neighborhood, allotting
among them equitably what each one is obliged to furnish, so that no
one be overburdened; but, since all this has been thus done until now,
the said village and tributes of his Majesty are being depopulated and
growing smaller. The said Audiencia having likewise seen the want and
necessity which has existed, and exists at present, of the said fowls,
swine, and eggs, for