VII. We order and command that, in the provinces and Realms of Peru, there shall reside a Viceroy and a Royal _Audiencia_ consisting of four learned Judges, the said Viceroy presiding over the said _Audiencia_, which shall be established in the city of The Kings, that being the most convenient position, for henceforward there will be no _Audiencia_ in Panamá. We order that a Royal _Audiencia_ shall be established on the confines of Guatemala and Nicaragua, consisting of four learned Judges, one of them being President, as may be appointed by Us, and at present we order that the President shall be the Licentiate Maldonado (who is a judge in the _Audiencia_ at Mexico), and that this _Audiencia_ shall have charge of the government of the said provinces, and their dependencies, in which provinces there will not be Governors, unless We should otherwise order, and these _Audiencias_, like those established in Santo Domingo, are to observe the following rules:-- Firstly, we will, decree, and command that all the criminal cases of whatever quality or importance which are pending, and that may arise hereafter before any of the four Royal _Audiencias_[165] of the Indies, may be considered, adjudged upon, and decided by our said _Audiencias_, by trial and revision, and the judgments thus given shall be executed and carried into due effect without any further appeal, petition, recourse, or other remedy whatsoever. In order to avoid the delay which would occur and the great injury, charges, and expense to the litigants, which would ensue should they come to our Council of the Indies following on any suit or civil action on which appeal was made from our said _Audiencias_, and in order that justice may be done more quickly and with less loss, we enact and command that in all civil suits which may be brought and which are brought, and are under the consideration of our said _Audiencias_ and our said Presidents and Judges who have been or may be appointed, these same shall try them and pass judgment and decide them by trial and revision; and the judgment given on revision may be carried out without there being any further step by appeal, petition, or any other recourse whatever, unless the suit be of such nature and importance that the value of the property in question be ten thousand _pesos de oro_ or upwards, in which case we will that they may appeal a second time before our Royal Presence, provided the suitor making the said second appeal do present it before us within one year from the time that the revised judgment is notified to him or to his Attorney.