Handbook for translators of Spanish historical ... - University Library

APPENDIX A
ice to all parties concerned. [You are further empowered)
to adjudge, and you shall adjudge, your letters and censures
on any matters or cases that may come up and which it may
be necessary to adjudge; they shall be obeyed, fulfilled,
and executed as letters and censures of our judge and Inspector
G-eneral. [You are empowered] to investigate any matters
or causes that may be presented through any channel or in
any manner whatsoever until they have been definitely concluded.
(In matters that may come up concerning the Inquisition
[S anto officiO ]^ you shall file any charge or charges
deemed advisable; after they are filed, you shall forward
them to us closed and sealed.) In everything else stated
above, in each item and portion thereof, we do hereby
grant you full power, together with all those ^ powers j dependent,
incident, and annexed thereto, according to and as
required by law in such cases. [We further e;npower you ] to
appoint and take with you on the aforesaid vi'sitation one
alguacil , one fiscal , one notary, and one interpreter provided
that, in their appointment, you observe the form required
by law in such cases. For the work that you and
your officials must perform, as stated above, we hereby
order that, out of court costs and proceeds derived from
judgments in addition to any standard rates, you shall
earn and receive a salary of two pesos de minas for each
day you may be engaged in this visitation; the notary
(Shall receive] one peso de mina; the fiscal , one peso de
tipuzque ; and the interpreter, one peso de tipuzque . In
witness whereof we hereby order given you, and we do give
you, the present commission, signed with our names and
sealed with our seal, and countersigned by our secretary,
which commission we hereby decree to be valid for such time
as it shall be our will. Given in Mexico City on the second
day of the month of April, fifteen hiindred and sixty-nine.
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