and in those settlements which shall be made in the
future, either among our colonists or among others
who are natives of the island, now or in the future.
You and your said subordinates are also empowered
to take the payments annexed and pertaining to the
said offices, and to make any investigation you think
best in cases at law, precedents, and all other matters
annexed and pertaining to the said offices. You
and your said subordinates shall perform the duties
which pertain to our service and the execution of our
justice, and to the colonization and government of
the said island and towns. In order that you
may enjoy and exercise the said offices and execute
our justice, all persons shall yield obedience to you
as to their persons and property; they shall offer
and cause to be offered you all the support and help
that you may request and need from them; in everything
they shall respect and obey you, and shall carry out
your orders and those of your subordinates; and they
shall neither in whole nor in part place or consent
to place any obstacle or hindrance in your way.
By the present decree we entrust you and consider
you entrusted with the aforesaid duties, and the enjoyment
and exercise of the same. We give you power and
authority to enjoy and exercise your office, and to
administer and execute our justice in the said island
and in the settlements that have been and shall be
founded in the cities, towns, and villages of the said
island, and its boundaries, by you or your subordinates
as aforesaid. And in case that you should not
be received by them, or any one of them, by this our
decree we order any person or persons who exercise
or shall exercise the authority of our justice in
the towns of the said island, to relinquish and surrender
it to you, the said Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, as soon
as they shall be requested to do so; and they shall
enjoy the same no longer without our [19] permission
and special order, under the penalty which private
citizens are liable to and incur who make use of public
and royal offices without possessing the due power
and authority. We hereby suspend, and already
consider as suspended, all such persons. Furthermore
we order that the fines pertaining to our exchequer
and treasury imposed by you and your subordinates,
be enforced; and you must enforce them, and deliver
and surrender them to our treasurer in the said island.
And further we order that if you, the said Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi, should consider it fitting to our
service and to the execution of our justice, that any
one whosoever, now or in future, in the said island,
should leave it, and should not enter or remain therein,
and that he should present himself before us, you
may so order in our name; and you must banish him from
the island according to the ordinance governing this
matter, giving to the person thus banished the reason
for his banishment. And if it seem best to you
that the reason should be kept secret, you shall give
it in a statement closed and sealed; and shall send