[Then follows the short statement of the government secretary, Ramon
de Orendain, who had the ordinances written down at the order of
the Audiencia. This is succeeded by an act of the Audiencia, dated
February 26, 1768, enjoining strict observance of these ordinances
which were ordered to be formulated by royal decrees of December 4
and 23, 1760. Those decrees ordered the revision of the ordinances of
Governor Arandía. In order that all persons may not plead ignorance of
them, they were ordered to be registered in both accountancies, and in
the government secretary's office, and copies were to be sent to each
alcalde-mayor, corregidor, and justice. [127] These copies were to be
translated into the native languages of the different jurisdictions,
and the archives of each village was to have a copy. Other copies
were ordered to be sent to the bishops and the father provincials of
the several orders, so that they might order obedience on the part of
their subjects, who are not to meddle in governmental matters. Last
is the attestation of Orendain as to the accuracy of the copy, which
bears date Manila, June 14, 1768, and which was sent to the castellan
of the port of Cavite.]