Any person who had requested his 'ricios' [?] to be kept shall ask to the Major [the appointment of] two experts before Christmas Day. If the experts declared that they [the ricios] should be kept, they [the experts? the owners?] shall put in the estate a wooden or cane-made cross, that shall be the sign indicating that the cattle can not access [the estate]. If the experts declared that they [the ricios] should not be kept, the cattle is allowed to graze them, and the same if before Christmas Day they [the ricios] had not been registered.