or by the prelates and ecclesiastical judges, let them plead by way
of petition and not of demand.

58. _Item_: Our Audiencia and the other magistrates of our said
district shall see to it that in the towns which are not populated by
Spaniards no bulls shall be published. They shall not permit Indians to
be compelled to hear the preaching of them, or to receive them. Those
which are published from the pulpit shall be published in the Spanish
language. We also give the same command to the commissaries of the
holy crusade. [49]

_Royal treasury and its officials_

59. _Item_: We also ordain that the suits of our royal treasury
be examined and decided before any others that shall be before the
Audiencia; and that our fiscal shall take care to prosecute them,
and to report to us what is done therein.

60. _Item_: Our president with two auditors at the beginning of
each year shall audit the reports of the officials in charge of our
royal treasury for the previous year; and the said officials shall
finish them within the months of January and February. When they
are completed they shall send a transcript thereof to our Council of
the Yndias. We also command that at the end of the said two months,
if the said accounts are not completed, the officials of our royal
treasury shall receive no salary until they finish them; and each
of the auditors who shall thus be ready to receive the said accounts
shall have as a fee twenty-five thousand maravedis.

61. _Item_: The judicial settlement [_remate_] made with regard to
auctions by our royal treasury must not be made without the consent of
the majority of those appointed therefor, even when the auditor who
shall be present desires it. Further, at such sales and settlements
shall be present our fiscal with said officials, who shall sell
nothing in his absence.

62. _Item_: We command that at the time when the auditing of the
accounts of our royal exchequer by our president and auditors shall
begin, in conformity with the decree given thereon, they shall go
first of all to our royal treasury and weigh and count the gold and
silver and the other things therein. They shall make a record thereof,
and immediately begin the accounts; and when they are completed
the balance shall be collected within the time required by the said
decree, and shall be placed in the chest of the three keys, orders
being given that the balance of the preceding year shall not be made
up by the collectio