e--whence results much harm to the litigants,
on account of the delay and unsatisfactory conduct of their business,
beside many other inconveniences resulting therefrom: therefore, to
remedy this evil, they decreed and ordered that, now and henceforth,
no alcalde-in-ordinary, commissioner, attorney, notary-public,
or other official of this royal Audiencia or of the ordinary court,
shall go anywhere outside of this city, without the express permission
of this royal Audiencia, under a penalty of a fine of six pesos of
common gold, in which sum anyone adjudged guilty of the contrary shall
be immediately fined--one-half for the poor in the prison, and the
other half for the poor in the Spanish hospital--beside the loss and
interest which may result to the parties concerned on account of the
delay in justice. By this act they so proclaimed, ordered and decreed.

Before me:

_Pedro Hurtado Desquibel_

_Ordinances and laws for the Sangleys._

We, the president and auditors of the royal Audiencia and Chancilleria
of these Philipinas Islands. Whereas it has been learned by experience
in this city that the Sangleys residing in the islands and their
neighborhood have had and maintain among them a custom of practicing,
and they do practice an abominable sin against nature, not only with
the Chinese, but with the Moro and Indian boys of these islands,
by which God, our Lord, is greatly disserved; and, whereas, the said
Chinese have had and have the habit and custom of bringing from China,
or making in this city, money of base metal, and they pare and clip the
royal money, to the great fraud and injury of the royal exchequer; and
although they have seen that some are punished for this, they have not
taken warning; and whereas, the said Sangleys, who are infidels, ally
themselves with the Christian Indian women, and have lawless carnal
intercourse with them; and whereas, besides the aforesaid crimes, the
said Sangleys are wont to buy from slaves and Indians golden jewels,
trinkets, clothes, and other articles which are stolen: therefore,
to supply a remedy for all that, and in order that such crimes and
disorders shall cease, now and henceforth, we command the following
orders to be observed in everything.

_Laws._--First, we ordain and command that none of the said Chinese
Sangleys, or any other persons whatsoever, shall commit or practice
the said abominable sin against nature, or try to commit it. Whoever
shall do so shal