It is ordered that anyone who called the ´veedores´ [assessors] in order to assess any damage that has been caused in his estate or fruit trees is obliged to have it declared [?] within 3 public hearings, on pain, in case he had not declared it, of having no right to declare it [?] unless he had experienced a fair obstacle [for doing that] and this obstacle had been recognized as such by the governing body of the village [´regidores´].