ive all fines, in
whatever manner they shall be applied by our auditors, whether to our
treasury, or to court rooms, or to other expenses. Our alguazil-mayor
shall take charge of the enforcement of them. The amounts so received
by the said treasurer shall be immediately brought before the officials
of our royal exchequer, who shall deposit them in the chest of the
three keys, and enter in a record everything thus collected from the
said sentences. They shall keep separate the fines for the treasury
and those for court rooms; and our said president and auditors shall
supervise the care thereof taken by the treasurer, who shall at the
end of each year, on account of the said sentences [_condenaciones_]
and the receipt thereof, send to our Council of the Yndias a condensed
report thereof, attested by his signature and that of the officials,
and a certificate from the clerks of the said Audiencia as to the
sentences given.

69. _Item_: There shall be in the possession of our president a
record in which every clerk shall enter in his presence, every week,
the sentences passed in presence of the said clerk, on pain of being
obliged to pay them from his own property. When the president and
auditors shall have need of anything, they shall give a warrant for it
on our treasurer on account of those moneys collected under judicial
sentences passed for similar objects.

_Probate matters_

70. Further: We command that our Audiencia shall audit the accounts of
the administrators of the estates of deceased persons, and shall see
if they have observed the ordinances and decrees given with regard
thereto. These accounts shall be audited in the month of January,
on pain of loss of salary for two months, to be taken from that due
the first third of the year, unless they show that they have audited
the said accounts in the said month. We command further that, for
the good administration of the estates of deceased persons, our said
Audiencia shall appoint each year an auditor who shall be judge of
such administration, and may try the matter as if the whole Audiencia
were to try it.

_Indians, and matters relating to them_

71. _Item_: Our said president and auditors shall always take great
care to be informed of the crimes and abuses which shall be committed,
or have been committed, against the Indians who shall be under
our royal crown, or against those granted in encomiendas to other
persons by the governors or private persons.