Sello Primero
  • Article 14: The public documents, testaments, and orders of execution or of payment of which preceding articles treat whose amount does not reach three thousand pesos and exceeds two thousand.
  • Article 15: The titles of employments  or offices and certificates of which the  preceding articles speak whose income  reaches four  hundred pesos.
  • Article 16:  None
  • Article 17: The licenses and letters of examination of all the offices, and those which are granted to have ships, drinking houses, eating houses, taverns, hotels,  lodging-houses, and the rest of this kind.
  • Article 18: The books of the ayuntamientos (municipal governments) of the capitals of provinces, those of the cities, those of the cathedrals, and those of the consulates and commercial companies authorized by the government, and those of  insurance of any class.
  • Article 19: The briefs (informes) of purity of blood, merits, services, life and customs, and the definite judicial decrees, which are given concerning them.
Sello Segundo
  • Article 20: The public documents, testaments, orders of execution or of payment of which the preceding articles speak whose amount reaches two thousand pesos; and the   powers-of-attorney  for litigations.
  • Article 21: The quittances or certificates of them which are given by the Tribunal of Accounts, or any other offices where they are rendered, if the amount does not exceed two thousand pesos and reaches one thousand.
  • Article 22: The titles of employments or offices and certificates of which the preceding article speak whose income does not reach four hundred pesos.
  • Article 23: The books of the ayuntamientos  (municipal governments) of the towns, those of the collegiate and parochial churches, and those of merchants private commercial  companies (companias de comercio particulares).
  • Article 24:  The proofs, which are made for presentation in court.
  • Article 25:  The certified copies of judicial decrees, which are given to the litigants to aid the Superior  (Court) in an appeal, or for protection of their right.
  • Article 26:  The writs, which are issued by the Royal Audiencias at the instance of a litigant.
Sello Tercero
  • Article 27:  On this stamp must be extended all judicial actuations in affairs of  litigants, petitions, allegations, notifications, judicial decrees, adjusted briefs (memoriales ajustados), papers in equity (papeles en derecho), not only in the ordinary courts, but also because a prosecution  (instancia) which is not written on stamped paper of  the  third class can neither  be presented nor received by any Judge, Authority, Secretary’s Office, Notary’s Office, or other office, in the sense that in this matter no   exception or   personal  privilege can be admitted, in conformity with that declared by the Royal Order of the third of September of 1825.
  • Article 28: The memorials which are presented before any Authority, the letters (esquelas) which are delivered to call attention to the petitions previously made and presented not being included in the disposition.
  • Article 29: The judicial records and registers of the Notaries-Public in which are entered the ocuments of contracts, obligations, testaments, and the rest that pass before them whatever the amount maybe.
  • Article 30: The intermediate sheets of all contracts, testaments, foundations, titles,  certificates, licenses, judicial proofs or any other document which requires a stamp of a higher class, always and without exception, as for the first and last sheets only.
  • Article 31: The intermediate sheets of the certified copies of judicial decrees, which are given as a first copy to, the litigants for appeal to the Superior Court or for the protection of their rights
  • Article 32: The quittances and certificates of them which are give by the Tribunal of Accounts, or any other office where they are rendered, for amounts less than one thousand pesos.
  • Article 33: The certificates which are given by the Accounting Offices, Secretary’s Offices, Notary’s Offices, Courts, Ministers, or Ecclesiastical or Secular  Authorities, or by any other office, of that which may appear in their roles or books.
  • Article 34: The Books of cognizance of giving and taking (do dar y temar), lawsuits, consultations, expedientes  (papers pertaining to any matter), briefs, or any other memorandums of Secretaries, Clerks of a high court of Justice, Notaries, Reporters, Attorneys and Agents, and  those of  entry  and  departure prisoners, of visitations (visits) and of resolutions (acuerdos).


    • Sello Quarto de Oficio

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  • Article 35: The use of official paper  shall  continue  as heretofore   and with the applications which it had since its origin, there being written on it the actuations, either judicial or extra judicial, which are of official origin, and which are comprehended in the preceding articles relating to the affairs of litigants. 
  • Article 36: The books of cognizance of the Fiscals (Prosecuting Attorneys).
  • Article 37: The Intermediate sheets of the certified copies of judicial decrees which  are   ordered to be given in duplicate or triplicate to the litigant parties to appeal to the Superior (Court) or for the protection of their right, it being understood that the first copy was written on the stamp of the third class and (this) being noted by the Clerk on the succeeding copies and on the Judicial record.  This regulation is not to be applied to the copies of the documents of the judicial record (protocolo) nor to the registers of the Clerks, since whenever they are given by him, or by order of the judge, they must be on the paper of the corresponding stamp as specified.
  • Article 38: In the principal offices of the Royal Treasury and in the other dependencies of the department in which there must be prepared books of receipts and records of   property and funds, contracts with the Department of Public Revenue, or other records which    exact a rigorous intervention, ordinary paper shall be used for those, with the exception of the first and last sheets, which shall be on official paper, marking on the first leaf the purpose of the book, the number of leaves which it contains, the stamped leaves and the principal Chiefs signing it with a complete signature, by whom the remaining sheets  shall be initialed.  The other books of special records, of which Treasurers, Accountants, or Administrators of  Public Revenues set up  for their  guidance may be on ordinary paper, but always paged and signed by the respective Chiefs.

    • Article 39: There shall be no innovation in the established practice for the issue of permits, expert licenses, passports, and safe-conduct of merchandise, fruits and cattle with respect to the internal traffic; nor also in those which are issued for the  transportation of fruits  and goods  by sea from port to port of the dependency of the same Captain General.