Note XXV-78 — Chapter XXV · DIVERS PHASES OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. 1819-1863.
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A decree was issued in Sept. for election of deputies; another calling to arms, for the defence of the state, all citizens between the ages of 18 and 60. Panamá was on the 2d of that month declared the provisional capital of the state. On the 20th of Oct. was convoked a constitutional assembly which met on the 28th of Nov., on which date the governor, in a message, made a statement of events. On Oct. 28th was issued an amnesty excepting only such persons as still refused to recognize the provisional government. Id., Sept. 6, 19, Oct. 1, 22, Nov. 3, 10, Dec. 11, 1862; S. F. Bulletin, Sept. 17, Nov. 26, 1862.