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easily furnish what is assigned to and ordered from them. Furthermore,
there shall be no Sangleys (whether infidels or Christians), or native
chiefs or timaguas, excused from undertaking the said breeding, and
furnishing the said allotment, since it is important for their own
welfare, utility, and profit. The said reservation shall be observed
in regard to everything else therein contained; and they ordered all
the said alcaldes-mayor to issue letters and royal decrees, with this
act inserted therein, in order that the provisions herein contained
may begin to be observed from the first of January of the coming
year, one thousand five hundred and ninety-nine, beginning with
Tondo and continuing with the other places in the said order. And
the said alcaldes-mayor shall be notified that, just as care will
be taken to reward them for the care and diligence that they shall
exert in its fulfilment, in like manner those who do not observe it
will be punished; and orders will be given to take especial account
in their residencias of the carelessness or neglect observed by them
in this. Thus they decreed and ordered, and affixed their signatures.

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

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act ordering the auditor last appointed to audit the accounts of
this city for the past year XCVIII_.

In the city of Manila, on the nineteenth of December, one thousand
five hundred and ninety-eight, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia of the Philipinas Islands declared that, whereas the king
our sovereign, by one of his royal ordinances, ordains and orders the
aforesaid, that one auditor of this his royal Audiencia shall each
year audit the accounts of this city; and that they shall commence
with the last elected, and that each year they shall continue with the
rest of the auditors in their turn: therefore, in conformity with the
said royal ordinance, and in order exactly to enforce its provisions,
they ordered, and they did so order, that the licentiate Albaro
Cambrano, auditor of this royal Audiencia, beginning the aforesaid,
shall immediately audit the said accounts of this city for the past
year of ninety-eight, ordering and providing therefor whatever is
necessary. To that end, and for any act connected with and concerning
it, they gave him power and full commission, as far as is required by
law. In