The Village Council shall celebrate a public hearing the first day of each month, except if it was a festivity, in which case it shall be postponed to the following one at 10 in the morning; [in this hearing] the denounced persons shall be listened. In case the denounced persons denied [the accusation] and offered any proof, they [the proofs] shall be accepted for the following hearing, in which they shall be condemned or absolved wihout any other step; and once the hearing had finished, no other statement shall be accepted.