DELGADO DECREE TO PASSI, FEBRUARY 21, 1899

Exhibit 1231.

[In Spanish . D . S. P . I. R ., File No. 972.4.]

FEBRUARY 21, 1899.

(Stamp)

Most urgent.

MARTIN DELGADO y BERMEJO, General-in-Chief of the liberating Army of Visayas.

By virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the Federal States of Visayas as General-in-Chief of the Army, I hereby decree the following:

ARTICLE 1. The following shall be declared enemies and traitors to the country:

First-Those who intentionally disseminate among the people rumors favorable to the cause of the North American enemies, and

Second :-Those who weakly and criminally persuade the natives to deliver themselves to the North American yoke.

ART. 2. Those guilty of the crimes referred to are to be dealt with by a summary court and therefore tried in accordance with the law and the punishment incurred will be imposed.

ART. 3 . The following punishments are established:

First-imprisonment;

second, imprisonment and hard labor;

third, indemnization;

fourth, shooting.

Let it be published and communicated for general information and translate into the Visayan dialect.

HEADQUARTERS OF SANTA BARBARA, Feb. 21, 1899.

(Signed) MARTIN F. DELGADO*,
General-in-Chief

To LOCAL PRESIDENTE, Passi.


*SHOULD BE MARTIN T. DELGADO, OR MARTIN B. DELGADO AS HIS MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME WAS BERMEJO.