139. [Clerks and commissioners are to undertake no official investigations without signed warrant from the court.  Penalty:  two years’ suspension and a hundred pesos for the first offense, and dismissal for the second.]

140. [More than one demand [peticion] in appeals is not to be accepted from either party.  Penalty:  two pesos.]

141. [Abbreviations or numbers in dates are not permitted, for fear of fraud.  Penalty:  damages of the parties and twenty pesos for the exchequer and court-rooms.]

142. [Memoranda of testimony in criminal cases must be given to the fiscal for correction.  Penalty:  four pesos.]

143. [Clerks in all depositions are to put questions as to age and the like, to avoid fraud.  Penalty:  two pesos to the court room.]

144.  They shall accept no food, fowls, or other things in satisfaction of their fees, on pain of being required to repay fourfold what they thus accept, to our exchequer.

145. [No fees are to be accepted from a defendant who swears on preliminary examination that he owes nothing, in case the plaintiff does not prove his case on judicial examination.  In such case, the plaintiff is to pay the fees.]

146. [Copies of decisions are to be promptly given to the party requesting it.  Penalty:  two pesos to the court-room.]

147. [Notice of fines and penalties must be sent to the fiscal weekly.  Penalty:  two pesos to the court-room.]

148. [Evidence of poor suitors is to be taken with care and promptitude.]

149. [Notifications of hearings in cases concerning small amounts are to be sent to the parties.  Penalty:  two pesos to the court-room.]

150. [Personal presence is required at examinations in criminal cases and the execution of sentences.  Penalty:  suspension from office.]

151. [Lists of fees allowed by law must be posted in their offices, as well as in the public hall of the Audiencia.  Penalty:  five pesos to the poor of the prison.]

152. [No fees may be taken for keeping or looking for records.  Penalty:  fourfold to the royal exchequer.]

153. [Copies of penalties and memoranda of fiscal cases must be sent to the fiscal every week.  Penalty:  six pesos to the royal exchequer.]

154. [Examinations are to be dated by the time of examination, and not by that of taking the oath.  Penalty:  four pesos to the exchequer.]

155.  In inquisitions and examinations which they shall make they shall put thirty lines on a page, and in every line ten parts [i.e.], words divided by spaces]; and they shall write a good hand and shall place at the foot of each inquisition or examination the fees to be received therefor, under a penalty of eight pesos to our exchequer for a violation.

156. [Fees for single documents are not to be augmented because other documents are incorporated within them.  Penalty:  fourfold repayment to the exchequer.]