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who exercise jurisdiction in cases in which they have not the power or 
right to do it, through having no commission or authority for it. Done in 
Mexico on the sixteenth day of the month of September, 1593. Don 
Luis de Velasco. By order of the viceroy. Pedro de Campos. 
Don Luis de Velasco, cavalier of the Order of Santiago, viceroy and 
deputy of our lord the king, governor and captain-general of New Spain, 
and president of the Audiencia and royal chancery sitting there, etc. In 
regard to the Chichimecas and Tlaxcaltecos of the settlement of Chalchi- 
guitis, it has been reported to me that they are molested by the justices of 
the district of Guadalajara, who compel them to go there for inspection 
and for their elections and other affairs that occur among them. This 
causes them annoyance and offense, and they petitioned me to order it 
to be remedied in the way best suited to their conservation. Therefore, 
in view of the above, and because it is right that the said Indians of the 
said settlement shall be protected and saved from the molestation and 
annoyance as far as possible, so that they may make progress, and that 
all the judges and ministers of his Majesty shall aid in this, by these 
presents I order that the said justices of Guadalajara shall not interfere 
in anything affecting the said Indians in justice, government, or any 
other matter. Nor shall they disturb or offend them or give cause for 
complaint, under penalty of committing a grave offense, for which the 
proper proceedings will be taken against any one who commits it. Let 
special care be taken to carry this out by the lieutenant captain-general 
whom I have named for all that concerns those Indians. Done in Mexico, 
February 18, 1595. Don Luis de Velasco. By order of the viceroy. 
Martín López de Gauña. 
I, Bartolomé de Colmenares, clerk of the council and government of 
the royal Audiencia of the new kingdom of Galicia, certify that by order 
of the Señores president and oidores of the said royal Audiencia, I took 
this copy from another copy which is signed by Juan Tenorio, treasurer 
of the said royal Audiencia, which is bound in with the autos of the 
inspection which the licentiate Gonzalo Pañella Fuentes, of the council 
of our lord the king and his oidor of the said royal Audiencia, made 
when he was inspector of this kingdom, in the towns of Llerena and 
San Martin, and which is in my office and archive, to which I refer. Done 
in the city of Guadalajara, on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1610, the eye¬ 
witnesses to its drawing up, correction, and comparison being Pedro Gil 
de Laudenas and Francisco Martin de Ribera, residents of this said city. 
In certification of which I fixed my signature [here there is a signature — 
F. R. B.] in testimony of the truth. Bartolomé de Colmenares. 
[With rubric.] Free of charge. 
