When the nature of the offence required [the collection of] information about the events […], the Village Council shall contact the civil judge so he can act according to what he best considered and, in case there was no civil judge, the Village Council shall contact the 'Superioridad' [?] so it can provide it [the Village Council]  with faculties […]; all this, however, does not prevent in any case the Village Council, in case it considered it, from obtaining information, once a complaint had been formulated, in order to clarify the rights and accomplices of the offences that were within its realm of competences, although these informations shall be exclusively instructive […] and, in case that the events […] turned out to have criminal complications, the Village Council shall pass 'un tanto de ello' [?] to the Civil Court, so it can take the corresponding measures, without  prejudice to all the punishing measures imposed by the Village Council.