Note XXIV-61 — Chapter XXIV · INDEPENDENCE OF THE ISTHMUS. 1801-1822.
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The military were left free to stay or leave the Isthmus. In the latter event they would be furnished means to go to Cuba, provided they pledged themselves not to use arms against the independent states of America. Similar provisions were made for soldiers and officers detained by sickness. Another document speaks only of defraying the expenses to Chagres or Portobello, the transfer to be made as soon as the forts there surrendered. Pan. Doc.