As the viceroys, governors and their lieutenants, and our officers, prelates, monasteries, hospitals, religious houses, mints, as well as officers of our revenue, and other persons favoured as officials hold Indians in _encomienda_, and as disorders have arisen in the treatment of those Indians, it is our will and we command that all the Indians they hold and possess shall be promptly placed under [the protection of] our Royal Crown, by whatever title they may have been held by those who are or were viceroys, governors or their lieutenants, or any of our officials of justice, of revenue, of hospitals, confraternities, and other similar bodies. Although the Indians may not have been placed in _encomienda_ by virtue of the said offices, and though the said officials and governors should say they would rather resign their official positions and keep the Indians, they are not thereby excused from compliance. We further order that all persons who hold Indians without having a title, but have possessed themselves of them on their own authority, are to give them up and place them under our Royal Crown. As we are informed that other persons, though they hold a title, have been given _repartimientos_ in excessive quantity, we order our _Audiencias_, each one within its own jurisdiction, to inform themselves fully about this and with all possible despatch, and to reduce the _repartimientos_ of such persons to fair and moderate proportions, the rest being promptly brought under our Royal Crown, in spite of any petition and appeal that such persons may make. The _Audiencias_ are to send an early account of what they have done that we may know how our commands have been obeyed. In New Spain let especial adjustment be made of the Indians held by Juan Infante, Diego de Ordás, the Master Roa, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Francisco Maldonado, Bernardino Vásquez de Tapia, Juan Jaramillo, Martín Vásquez, Gil González de Benavides,[167] and other persons of whom it is said that they hold a very excessive number of Indians, according to information which has been given us. As we have also been informed that there are some persons in New Spain who were among the first _conquistadores_, and yet have no _repartimiento_ of Indians, we order that the President and Judges of the said New Spain find out about such persons and award them, from the tribute the Indians who may be released will have to pay, what shall appear to them a sufficient sustenance and fair provision for the said _conquistadores_ who are without _repartimientos_.