ns received during the auditing of the accounts.

63. _Item_: When the officials of our royal exchequer shall have
need of absenting themselves from the city where they reside, they
shall not have authority to do so without license from our president,
who shall give it for a short time, to a destination within those
regions, and no more. There shall be designated, in the place of the
official on leave, a person suitable therefor in the judgment of the
said president. And if the said official absents himself in any other
manner he shall lose his position.

64. Further: At the time of the making up of the accounts of the
tithes, for distribution according to the ecclesiastical appointments,
there shall be present thereat an auditor.

65. _Item_: We command that no salary be paid from our royal exchequer,
or from fines, to the judges in cases of residencia, or to criminal
judges [_pesquisidores_] commissioned by our Audiencia.

66. _Item_: We desire that there shall be a record of all the suits
and transactions of our royal exchequer; and that every Thursday in
each week (and if that shall be a holiday, on the day before), after
dinner, the senior auditor with our fiscal and the officials of our
exchequer, and one of the clerks thereof, shall discuss article by
article the said suits and transactions by means of the said record,
considering the state in which they are and how the decisions reached
at previous meetings have been carried out.

67. _Item_: We command that our president and auditors shall have no
authority to direct the payment of any money from our royal exchequer,
or to expend anything from it, without more express license and
command--except when cases occur in which the delay required to submit
them to us for consultation would cause irreparable injury. In such
case, when it shall seem advisable to our president and auditors and
the officials of our royal exchequer they shall expend therefrom
that which they all jointly shall regard as requisite, and shall
make expenditures in no other manner. The warrant which they shall
give for this shall be signed by them all, on penalty that what
is expended contrary to the tenor hereof shall be paid from their
own property. They shall immediately report the amount thereof, the
purpose and manner of the expenditure, and the necessity for which
it shall have been made.

_Fines paid into the royal treasury_

68. _Item_: We command that our treasurer shall rece