Editorial note — Chapter XXVI · Murder As a Governmental Agency
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“Proclamation
“First and last article. The following shall be tried at a most summary trial, and be sentenced to death:
“1. All local presidentes and other civil authorities, of the towns as well as of the barrios, rancherias and sitios of their respective districts, who as soon as they find out any plan, direction of the movement or number of the enemy shall not give notice thereof to the nearest camp.
“2. Those who give information to the enemy of the location of the camp, stopping places, movements and direction of the revolutionists, whatever be the age or sex of the former.
“3. Those who voluntarily offer to serve the enemy as guides, excepting if it be with the purpose of misleading them from the right road, and
“4. Those who, of their own free will or otherwise, capture revolutionary soldiers who are alone, or who should intimidate them into surrendering to the enemy.
“Issued at General Headquarters on March 20, 1900.
(Signed) “Manuel Tinio.”
—P. I. R., 353. 8.