It is necessary that the tributes be in the standard of Castilian reals, paid in money, or in the produce of the soil, as the Indian has them, and as he chooses, provided that their value remains.
4.

_That his Majesty order the Spaniards to release their Indian slaves._ Fourth: Although many of the Spaniards (all the Spaniards who have tender consciences--_Madrid MS._), have, in obedience to his Majesty's decrees, given up the Indians whom they held as slaves, many others still retain them--forbidding them to have house or property of their own, or to live in their own villages and doctrinas.

[42] A new decree is necessary, so that an end may be put to all this pest, as was done in Nueba Espana and Piru.
5.

_That the enslavement of Indians by other Indians be regulated._ Fifth: His Majesty is informed that all the chief and wealthy Indians, and even many of the common people among them, have and continually make, many slaves among themselves, and sell them to heathen and foreigners, although the slave may be a Christian.

It is ascertained that of the twenty and more different methods of enslavement not one is justifiable.