The Village Council, in those matters related to thefts and contraventions in the fields, shall be the only competent [body] to take part through complaint […], and, in an oral judgement, without any formality except the recording in a book of the claims made by the accuser, the reply by the defendant and the 'determinación' [?], that shall be always executive, no amounting the fine more than 400 reales vellón […]