this city after their terms of office have expired, without waiting
to furnish the said residencias, or being present at them, as is
required--whence it results that his Majesty's royal exchequer is
defrauded, since it does not have the income of the said fines and
tenths of gold. On the other hand, the said residencias not being
taken, as is required, nor the public claims before them paid to
their owners, and many other annoyances resulting, of some importance:
therefore, since it is advisable to remedy the aforesaid condition,
they ordered, and they did so order, now and henceforth, the decree
according to the laws of these realms, providing that no persons who
have held other offices be appointed to offices of the justiciary,
until they have furnished residencia of those that they previously
held, which shall have been examined and passed upon; and that such
persons shall have deposited, first and foremost, in his Majesty's
royal treasury, all the fines and condemnations which shall have
been in their charge, with tenths of gold and other things of which
they must give account, together with the payment of these and of
any other sums which they shall have been sentenced to pay in their
residencias. In order that they may furnish these, they must be present
in person, during the time prescribed by law, without leaving their
jurisdictions--being warned that if any person absent himself from
the jurisdiction where he holds office, without first furnishing
residencia, it will not be received or heard by the prosecutor, and
he will be compelled to return to furnish it in his own person. In
order that the provisions of this act may be strictly enforced,
they ordered that his Majesty's fiscal register the letters-patent
which shall have been given to the said offices of justice; so that
whatever is ordained by the said royal laws, and provided by this
act, he may claim when the officials shall be appointed, and the
necessary residencias be taken. Likewise there is to be delivered