_An act decreeing that the city shall give information regarding its
place of seating in the cathedral of this city._
In the city of Manila, on the sixteenth of March, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-nine, the president and auditors of the royal
Audiencia and Chancillería of the Philipinas Islands declared that,
in order to assign to the cabildo, magistracy, and administration of
this city the place of seating that it must keep in the cathedral:
in order to ascertain the custom hitherto followed in the aforesaid
matter, and in order to provide what is necessary concerning it,
they ordered, and they did so order, the said cabildo, magistracy,
and administration of this city to give an account of the part and
place in which it has been regularly seated in the cathedral of this
city--both in the time when the royal Audiencia formerly resided in
these islands, and after his Majesty ordered it to be suppressed--in
order that, upon examination, the necessary provisions may be made. By
this act they so voted, ordered, and decreed.