a,
for just cause.

90. _Item_: We command that our alguazil-mayor or his deputies,
whensoever they shall be directed to arrest any person, shall do so
and act accordingly without delay, concealment, or negligence--under
a penalty of forty pesos for every occasion on which they do the
contrary, in addition to the damage and concern of the parties,
and of that which has been adjudged and decreed.

91. _Item_: We command that if a malefactor be found committing a
crime they may and shall arrest him without a warrant. If it shall be
in the day-time, they shall take him immediately before the Audiencia
stating the cause of his arrest; if at night, they shall put him in
jail, and without delay on the following morning shall produce him
before the Audiencia, as aforesaid. They shall not venture to take any
property from the person whom they arrest, on pain of being required
to repay double what they have taken, for our treasury.

92. _Item_: We command that our said alguazil-mayor shall not
tolerate forbidden games of chance or notorious immoralities; and
if in the performance of his duty he shall meet with resistance,
let him immediately come and declare the same to the said Audiencia,
and on Saturday of each week let him come and give an account and
review of what he has thus done, under penalty of being required to
pay four pesos for the poor of the prison in each case.

93 _Item_: The said alguazil-mayor shall present before the Audiencia
the two alguazils whom he shall appoint for himself, that they may
be approved by us; and they shall not perform their functions until,
after being thus presented before the said Audiencia, they shall swear
in due form that they will well and faithfully perform their duties,
observing the laws, decrees, and ordinances dealing with the same;
and that they will not promise or give, and have not promised or
given, for the sake of those offices, or for the profits thereof,
or for anything else, the services of themselves or their men;
and that from the income and profits of the said offices they have
not given or promised anything. The same oath shall be required of
the alguazil-mayor who shall present them, and likewise from the
substitute alguazils--under the penalty prescribed for forswearing,
and of dismissal from office.

94. _Item_: We command that they shall not take gifts or gratifications
from the prisoners or from others for them, or for this cause lighten
imprisonments or r