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have commanded you, so that, in so far as possible, they shall be benefited, 
for such is my will. You will advise me at the first opportunity of the 
receipt of this despatch and of the observance of its dispositions. 
Dated in Madrid, July 12, 1695. I the King. 
By command of our lord the king, Bernardo Antonio de Pardiñas, 
Villar de Franco. 
[This is a copy, posterior to the year 1695, and without certificate that 
it is a transcript. It contains many errors which appear as the manifest 
mistakes of the copyist. For example it says “ pedimiento de bienes ” 
in place of “ perdimiento ”. 
At the head of the document it says: “ And at once the licentiate 
Loaysa, on the part of the lord viceroy, said and commanded that no 
person should or might do anything in contravention of these ordinances, 
under penalty of loss of the lands which had been the cause or origin of 
the breaking or violation of said ordinances and other regulations, al¬ 
though such lands might be held and possessed by legitimate title and 
grant; for if acts are committed against the royal ordinances, the grants 
are in themselves nothing nor of any value nor effect, for they all have been 
made, will be, and are to be made, under and subject to these ordinances 
and other conditions which pertain to the royal rights as appear in the 
grants made by his Majesty or in his name. These ordinances are of 
force for all this New Spain; thus they commanded, signed, and pre¬ 
scribed on the said day, month, and year: ”—Ad. F. Bandelier. Mexico, 
Feb. 18, 1912.] 
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