State Act
Section 137
Art. 137 – The general expenses of the archive shall be borne out of the general administrative funds but, each comunidades shall pay for the binding expenses as well as of copies of books, honorariums of the experts and the wages of the clerks recruited by the administrator for the purpose of making copies. § 1. As and when the books, files and papers, referred to in the sole paragraph of article 133 are sent to the general archive, a record should be made in the inventory of each comunidades mentioning the note by which they were sent. § 2. In the first fortnight of April, in each year the president of the managing committee, the attorney and the clerk of the comunidades, forming a commission, should sort out the books, closed files and papers which, under the terms in sole paragraph of article 133, should be sent to the general archives and the clerk shall send them to the administrative office before the 30th of the same month, accompanied by an inventory, in duplicate, signed by all the members of the committee. § 3. The failure to comply with what is contained in preceding paragraph, the president of the committee, the clerk and the attorney of the comunidade shall be liable to pay each one a fine of 300 $, by order of the administrator. § 4. The administrator of comunidades who proves to be negligent in awarding penalties referred to in preceding paragraph shall be punished with a fine of 600 $.