government, the Audiencia itself shall assume the government and
do all that he had authority to do--the senior auditor filling the
office of president, and taking charge of the other matters committed
to the president until we make provision in some other manner.

38. _Item_: We command that our said president shall not have authority
to give permission to the auditors of the said Audiencia to come to
these realms without our express command.

_Affairs of government_

39. _Item_: We command that in our said Audiencia there shall be a
record for affairs of government, in which our auditors shall register
the votes that they give on affairs of government.

40. _Item_: We command that our president of our Audiencia shall send
once a year to our Council of the Yndias an extended and detailed
report, attested by his signature, of the salaries, payments, fees,
and allowances paid in this territory from our royal treasury to all
persons whatsoever, and shall state how much was paid to each, and for
what reason. And he shall give a list of the corregidorships, stating
in it to whom the appointment is given by our warrant [_cedula_], and
to whom by order of our president and Audiencia, and for what reason;
and he shall report on the qualifications and merits of each person,
the amount of fees that each one receives, the amount of salaries
in each corregidor's district, and the persons appointed in each
district, and their qualifications. He shall also state the nature
of their service, and how long it is since they were appointed to
the said offices. The same reports shall be made by our fiscal and
our officials of the royal treasury.

41. _Item_: We desire that one of our auditors, each in his turn, shall
make a visit of inspection once a year to the villages of the district
of the said Audiencia, and to the inns and, apothecaries' shops, seeing
to it that the inns shall have fixed lists of rates. The medicines
and other things in the apothecaries' shops which he discovers to be
spoiled he shall pour out and not permit to be sold. On the same visit
to the provinces of his district he shall inform himself as to the
nature of the soil, the amount of the population, and the best means of
supporting the churches and monasteries required. He shall observe what
public buildings arc needed for the good of the towns and the better
traveling of the roads. He shall find out whether the natives perform
the sacrifices and commit