First, it is ordered that, according to the custom, on New Year's Day, every year, the aldermen ['regidores'], jurys, neighbours and council of this village shall join in this house without being called, and the elections and appointment of the authorities and officials of this village shall be made in this way: the aldermen when finish their duty shall appoint and elect by themselves, as it is customary,  the aldermen for the new year, and after having had sworn on their oath and taken possession the elected aldermen, these shall appoint 'regidor de valle' [government's member with the mission to relations with the other villages of the valley], and they shall also appoint the royal guard by turn among houses, and they shall also appoint two juries for this village by rotation of houses; and the said appointments of juries by turn [of houses] shall be made on the condition that there were not new neighbours and dwellers that year, because if there were those new [members] they shall be appointed that year the first in the list for these duties of juries; and it is prevented and declared that if any of the aldermen that were elected and appointed [as such aldermen] felt the turn to be appointed as guard of the fields of the village, he shall be relieved of the obligation to serve as guard for that year, and in the next year he shall exerced the said office of guard.