First of all, in accordance with what has been ordered by the Royal Council of this kingdom […], it is ordered and established that, every year and perpetually, the 1st of January, when the election of the public officials of this vilage takes place, six guards, neighbours of this village, from a good family and well regarded in the execution of their job, shall be appointed and elected by the current members of the government [´rexigores´] together with the previous ones [members of the government], so, for one year, they shall guard and watch all the grain and sown fields, orchards and other estates, grass lands, game and firewood from all the fields and jurisdiction of the village; they are obliged to reimbourse the damages that had been caused when they had not declared them, had hidden them or had not indicated the infractor or infractors; and they shall swear on oath, in front of the members of the government [´reximiento´], to perform their job as a guard according to the law; and these guards are allowed to perform the seizures and denunciations […].