16.  In cases which occur outside of the five-league limit, our president and auditors may appoint judges by commission [jueces de comision], to hear the cases and to administer justice with regard to them.  Care must be taken that they make their inquiries in cases which warrant inquiry, and in no others.  Such judges by commission for crimes and misdemeanors shall be given authority only to carry on a legal inquiry [informacion], and to arrest the delinquents and convey them to the prison of the Audiencia.  They may also collect their fees from those who owe them.  The clerks before whom the cases are carried on shall hand the records in their entirety to the clerks of the Audiencia, where the matter shall be completed in such manner that the parties shall be obliged to pay only single fees.  And if the clerks who attend such commissions have no commissioners [receptores], they shall be appointed by our Audiencia, and not by the clerks thereof.

17. Item:  We command that the receiving of the testimony which must be taken in the transactions which proceed from our Audiencia shall be entrusted to the clerks of those cities where it shall need to be done.  If there are no such clerks, our said Audiencia in the interim during which there are no official commissioners of examination [receptores] [47] shall appoint therefor a suitable person.

18. Item:  Our auditors in the exercise of civil and criminal jurisdiction shall receive no fees, or fines, or amercements, or anything under color of charges for sitting as assessors to the judges.  The fines which they lay in cases where the law assigns any fine to the judge shall be for our exchequer and treasury, and for no other person.  If the auditors take any of the aforesaid payments, they shall restore them fourfold.

19. Item:  We command that when any governors, alcaldes-mayor, or other magistrates of the district of our said Audiencia, shall fail to execute the writs and decrees which in our name the Audiencia shall send them, without showing that they have just cause to desist from the execution thereof, then in such case the Audiencia may send officials whose fees shall be at the cost of those guilty of disobedience, which officials shall cause the process of the Audiencia to be executed, notwithstanding the provision that the Audiencia shall not send out special judges of investigation [pesquisidores].

20. Item:  Our Audiencia shall maintain those who have letters-patent of nobility or privileges of gentility in the said letters-patent and privileges.  In other cases where claims of gentle birth are put forward, they shall not try them, but remit them to the audiencias of these kingdoms which have jurisdiction in such matters.

21. Item:  We command that our president and auditors shall have no authority to grant permission to go to the provinces of Peru.

22. Item:  We ordain and command that all criminal cases which shall come for judgment, from all parts of their jurisdiction, before our said Audiencia, of whatsoever nature or importance they may be, shall be tried, decided, and determined as on examination and review before our said Audiencia.  The sentence accordingly given shall be executed and carried into effect duly, without process of appeal, petition, or any other legal remedy or recourse.