royal Audiencia and Chancilleria of the Philipinas Islands declared
that, whereas his Majesty ordains and commands by one of the royal
ordinances for this royal Audiencia, that interlocutory decisions
shall be concluded, in trial and review, at one demand from each of
the parties, and that the clerk of court receive [no] other demands:
therefore, in order that the aforesaid be exactly executed, they
ordained and decreed that the attorneys of this royal Audiencia shall
conclude the said interlocutory decisions in trial and review, at one
demand from each party, without giving or presenting more demands,
with the warning that any others presented shall not be admitted. The
clerk of court is warned in the present that he shall not receive
them under penalty of a fine of two pesos, to be employed as it shall
seem proper, and delivered into the charge of the collector of fines
of this royal Audiencia, upon whom the execution of the above shall
be most carefully charged. And they ordered it to be proclaimed,
and especially to the said attorneys. So they provided, ordered,
and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_An act providing that no proceedings shall be conducted in suits
between Indians, without a decree from this royal Audiencia._

On the twenty-first of January, one thousand five hundred and
ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal Audiencia
of the Philipinas Islands, declared that, whereas, in one of his
royal ordinances, the king, our sovereign, commands the aforesaid
president and auditors that, in suits and civil and criminal cases
between Indians, the usual proceedings shall not be conducted or
issued, except in cases decreed and ordered by an act of this royal
Audiencia: therefore, in order that the aforesaid shall be exactly
fulfilled, they ordained and decreed that it should be communicated
to the said attorneys of this royal Audiencia, that when, in the name
of any natives, they shall bring suits against other natives, before
bringing these suits they shall notify this royal Audiencia--in order
that, if thought best, they may be docketed, and if not, that the cost
and expense may be avoided. Those which shall be prosecuted shall be
docketed by formal decree of this royal Audiencia, and in no other
manner. They must strive to be brief and precise in everything. The
notaries both of this royal Audiencia and the other jurisdictions
thereof are ordered, in the collection of fe