The Village Council ['Ayuntamiento'] is responsible for: the punishment of all the small thefts of fruits, firewood and manure in the open estates and corrals in all the fields under its jurisdiction; similarly, [settling] the damage claims of any sort; the disagreeements regarding the estate's limits, canals, paths and roads. About how to make the enclosings. About the contraventions [made] by the cattle in any sort of estates and pastures. About urban policing. About the freedom of commerce, healthiness of the food, legality of weights and measures, and about all the aspects encompassed by these regulations; but in the cases in which there were any sort of criminal problem, the Village Council shall hold prisoner the infractor and the civil judge shall act in within 24 hours […], without prejudice to the penalty that the Village Council could impose within the realm of their faculties, according to these regulations.