Note 13 — Chapter XXVI · Murder As a Governmental Agency
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On January 31, 1900, Pio Claveria, delegate to the Military Government of Iloílo province, Panay Island, wrote the presidente of Tigbauan, that if it was true that he and various other residents of that town had taken an oath recognizing American sovereignty and did not retract it the town would be razed to the ground, and they would be “deserving of the terrible penalties prescribed by the laws of the revolution!”13