II. As We have directed certain new rules to be drawn for our
_Audiencias_ of New Spain, Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the island
of Española, touching the order and procedure they should adopt in
considering and determining suits which may come before them, and
in the conduct of other things concerning the good government and
conservation of those parts and the natives of them, and that the
members of our said Council may keep more exactly in mind what powers
and duties are allotted to the _Audiencias_ and not recognize nor
adjudicate upon anything extraneous thereto, I have directed the
said rules to be incorporated here, and we order our said President
and members of our Council of the Indies to keep to and comply with
what they contain, and neither adjudicate upon nor recognize anything
contrary to their tenour and object.
III. We disallow and expressly forbid any servant or retainer of
the President or members of our said Council, any Secretary, Public
Prosecutor or Reporter to be an attorney or suitor in any business
of the Indies, on pain of banishment from the Realm for a term of
ten years, and we order every member of the Council above named who
may know of it, to punish and prevent such things, as tending to our
disservice.
IV. We order and command that it shall be the duty of those of our
said Council of the Indies to keep all the laws and ordinances of
our kingdoms, and especially those made by our Royal Council and the
Judges of our _Audiencias_ and the other Judges of our said kingdoms,
with reference to purity as regards the receiving any gifts, payment,
or loans from litigants and other persons having or expecting to
have business before them, nor shall they write any letters of
recommendation to the Indies on pain of punishments enacted in the
said laws and ordinances.
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