First of all, the sixteen deputies of the valley of Roncal established that the present and future officials from the seven places of the valley shall be appointed by the said villages as it is the custom, in order to take care and watch the grain fields, harvest and grass fields; they are obliged to watch the said fields, harvests and grass, and to report the field owner about the individual who had inflicted the damage; on pain, if the official did not do this, of the payment of the damage itself out of his own properties as well as [the payment of] the damages made outside or inside the harvest.