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hundred thousand maravedis Spanish currency units for each time he does the contrary. The said penalty shall be one-third for our Treasury, and another third for the informer, and the other third for the judge who sentences it. And we command those of our Council President and Magistrates of our Courts, Bailiffs of our household and Court, and Chancelleries, and all the Corregidores Magistrates appointed by the Crown., Assistants, Governors, Mayors and Ordinaries, and any other judges and justices of all the cities, towns, and places of our Kingdoms and Lordships, both those who are now and those who shall be hereafter, that they keep and fulfill this our decree and favor which we thus grant you, and do not go against or exceed, or allow to be gone against or exceeded, the tenor and form thereof and of what is contained in it, in any manner, under penalty of our displeasure and ten thousand maravedis Spanish currency units for our Treasury. Given in San Lorenzo on the twenty-fourth day of the month of May, in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty-nine.