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the First American Intervention General 

 Wood appointed Figueroa Alcalde of Cien- 

 fuegos, an appointment which was ratified 

 by the public in the first elections held under 

 the Republic and by his reelection in 1908. 

 In November of the same year he was 

 elected Senator for the Province of Santa 

 Clara to which office he has been reelected 

 and which he now holds. He has served 

 on the following Committees of the Senate : 

 Health and Charities; Tariff; Local Gov- 

 ernment, and Public Works of which last 

 he is the Chairman. Among the principal 

 laws proposed by Senator Figueroa are: 

 An Act to regulate the practice of Phar- 

 macy ; An Act to remit the payment by the 

 city of Cienfuegos of a million pesos besides 

 the two fifths from which it was released 

 by Decree No. 813 of Governor Magoon 

 for the Aqueduct of Cienfuegos; An Act 

 revising the studies of the Faculty of 

 Pharmacy and of the School of Agronomi- 

 cal Engineers. 



Senator Figueroa is a member of the 

 Liberal party and President of the party 

 in the Province of Las Villas. 



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