In this village it is the custom that, at Saint Silvester´s Day each year, all the neighbours get together in the council´s room so the persons in charge of giving justice [´la adminstración de justicia´] and the guards appointed [to perform the guarding duties] for the following year swear on oath in front of them; and they decide that the neighbour who did not attend that council at the hour it had been arranged shall get as a penalty 4 reales.