ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE PART Article 53: The Quartermaster-General of the Army, Superintendent-General  Sub-delegate of the Royal Treasury of the Island of Cuba, with presence of the rules proposed by that General Administration of Revalues in the first fifty-one articles of its paper of the 16th of April 1816, and of the change and amendment which some of them retire with respect to the circumstances which have supervened from the creation of new   treasuries (intendencias) in the provinces of Cuba, and Puerto Principe and  aggregation of this department with its principal Ministers and with the General   (Ministers) of the Royal Treasury of Havana, will formulate the Instruction he believes adequate to the object of assuring and of making uniform, the good government  and justice in the receipt, remittances and sale which are made of the sheets of stamped paper,  instructing recommendations for it by the council of said general Ministers and of the  Tribunal of Accounts, and he will circulate it  for its punctual observance in the provinces and dependencies of ther  district. Article 54:  In order that the Judges, Notaries Public, Public Defenders, Capitanes de Partido (Captains of Interest) and the other Ministers may be relieved of the responsibility which may result to them in the use of the paper of the stamp which does not suit, because of not having it appropriate paper, they will cause its value to be  delivered to the treasuries; and taking receipt of the “expendedores” [18] will attach it to the papers to which it pertains. Article 55: It being provided by law that by no Judge or Minister may ordinary paper be made valid for stamped paper or (stamped paper) of one biennial period for another, when it is lacking of it is difficult to obtain it, there shall be given to the Sub-delegate Superintendency, with the necessary anticipation, the notice which the Ordinance for Treasurers (Ordinanza de Intendentes)[19] advises, so that  it may permit  the surcharge of that which may be necessary under the prescribed rules. Article 56: In this case, if the surcharging should be reduced to converting ordinary to stamped paper, there shall be put at its head a stamp such that it may be valid for the years specified) in like manner, it should be (paper of) a previous biennial period; and if it should be only of one stamp for another, for example, the fourth, there shall be put:  “Valid for the Official Fourth Stamp (Valga para sello Quarto de Oficio), the Governor or Chief who is ordained for it politically (el le politico), the respective treasurer (Intendente) or Sub-delegate, and the Minister or Treasurer of the Royal Treasury affixing their rubrica in all those cases, according as it is ordered and practices. Article 57: The surcharging having been accomplished in this manner, the Treasury shall make entry in the royal book of the number of sheets surcharged, with  notation of their classes, and the lot shall be sent certified through the Treasurers of Superintendent, so that it is clear and the proper account is taken In the Tribunal of Accounts. Article 58: In the provincial capitals and large towns in which receptores  of stamped paper may be indispensable for its frequent issue and so that it is not   rendered difficult for those interested at any hour of   the day, those necessary shall be appointed at the   established percentage of that which they may sell, under the responsibility and bonds which serve to the satisfaction of the  principals in charge.  In other towns it shall be that respective   Administrations of Revenues; and in the distant parts it shall be    constituted in the manner already indicated, in order to remove every pretext of not using the corresponding paper because of not having it at hand or because of its  acquisition being difficult. Article 59: The official (paper) shall be issued even on holidays for that which may occur of its class, and not even during extraordinary hours of the night shall the expendedores (sellers) be excused from delivering that which is asked for its price, at the order of any Judge or Authority who requires it for the exigencies of the service. Article 60: In no receptoria (receiver’s office) shall there be received other used (closed) sheets than those of the first four stamps which may have been spoiled when the  appointments. Instruments and judicial acts were formed or extended, and in no case these whose first leaf may have been completely written upon.  The return in such case shall be made with the requisites and in the terms, which the municipal law orders. Article 61: Neither shall there be received those in which the error in writing may have been verified if the instrument is complete with the counter-signatures and subscriptions which close it, those which may come to dirty; nor the sheets or halves which in  disputed     matters are signed by the lawyers or attorneys, nor those which are found with decrees or judicial orders (autos) of the Tribunals or Councils, because all these are not spoiled (mistaken) by haphazard or accident, and to admit them would cause frauds and abuses. Article 62: It being obligatory to observe the established rule for the receipt of the exact stamps of the same first four classes, none should be received by the ordinary Courts and public officials, except only those which are mistaken by accident in the dispatches (despachos) of the Audiencias, Governments, Captain-Generals, Superior Councils, Treasuries, and higher Tribunal of Accounts, provided that they are signed by the Clerks of a High Court, Secretaries and Officials of papers of the same Tribunals and Courts, to whom only this trust is permitted. Article 63: At the end of a biennial period, should there result a stock of stamped paper in the Tribunals and offices and in the possession of person who may have taken it for use, they shall return it to the person in charge of the expendio  (issuing office) during the first fifteen days of January, and shall receive an equal number of current sheets in exchange; the limit having passed they cannot be admitted and the persons with whom they may be found shall be punished with the penalty established in Article 34, and doubled if he should be a notary, without prejudice to the other penalties proportioned  to  that of  the  degree of maliciousness  which may  be proved, as far as  that of  does it, if  they should arrive at  making  an unlawful use of the paper. Article 64: After the opportune measures shall be taken in order that the current stamped paper may not be lacking at any time in the dominions of the Indies and in each one of their districts, if nevertheless by some unforeseen accident it should come to be lacking, the re-stamping of the sheets or reams which are estimated sufficient will be  undertaken under the rules and with the formalities established; for which purpose there shall be reserved from the surpluses of the preceding biennial period the number necessary, and no more, preceding  to render useless the stamp of the remaining stock in the warehouses, which afterwards shall be destined for cartridges, office supplies, sale, or other uses from which some profit for the Royal Treasury may be taken; by which means, in addition to all suspicion and occasion of fraud and substitution of public instruments being removed the administrators and receptores (receivers) may be relieved from  the liability which is consequent to an indefinite retention of those assets which must be charged in their accounts, and the department of the expenses which the shipments to great distances of such surpluses would occasion, and of the chance that it could not be indemnified by the uses to which they might be applied. Article 65: In order that in the event of a new reign the stamped paper of the anterior maybe valid, it shall be subscribed, putting beneath the stamp:  ‘’Valid for  the reign of  the  Sir Den ______” and “Years of  ______” (Velga para el reine del Sr. D______” and “Años de ______*) with the rubrica, be means of a die (estampilla). Article 66: To no Tribunal, Judge, Office,  Public Minister, or person who may use the official paper shall it be issued freely without first paying its value in cash,   notwithstanding any order or custom to the contrary, which should be  left  without  effect;  since  with  that  intent it was ordered  in the Royal Order of the 26th of February of 1784,  and  it is reiterated,  that  all the secular Judges,   with  whom are included those of the Royal Treasury, may create a fund for expenses of justice whence it may be deducted. Article 67: in all the offices and dependencies to which these matters must extend there shall be copies of ~ this Instruction for their general knowledge and observance, so that it may be fulfilled by all the Judges and Authorities. For that it reason I ordain and command my Viceroys, Captains-General, presidents. Regents add Auditors (Associate Justices) of my Royal Audiencias (Supreme Courts) Governors, Treasurers, Corregidors (provincial Magistrates), provincial and municipal Judges; and the other Judges and Courts of all the cities, towns and places of my dominions of the Indies, adjacent Islands, and of the Philippines, and I ask and charge the Very Reverend Archbishops, Reverend Bishops and Venerable Deans and Chapters (Cabildes) of the metropolitan churches and cathedrals of the same, that they fulfill and execute and cause to fulfill and execute, each one in the part which touches him, that provided in this my Royal Cedula, ordering to that end its  publication and circulation which therefore is my will.  Date in the Palace on the 12th of February of 1830, - I, the King. [20]