SANCHEZ DE FUENTES 



of Foreign Relations and was Chairman of 

 the Committee on Justice and Legal Codes; 

 he was member of the committee which 

 formulated the existing currency system 

 and of the joint committee which pre- 

 pared the Law for Economic Defense. He 

 gave final form to the law organizing the 

 Diplomatic and Consular Service, as also 

 to the Workman's Liability Law which, 

 after having been presented ten years 

 before, was finally perfected and passed 

 under his sponsorship. 



Two other important parliamentary la- 

 bors of Dr. Sanchez de Fuentes are the 

 bill the first he introduced by which the 

 National University received a consider- 

 able appropriation for improvements, and 

 one by which the Penal Code was reformed 

 in conformity to modern standards. 



Upon the occasion of the tobacco crisis 

 of 191 5-16, he was one of a special com- 

 mission appointed by the House of Repre- 

 sentatives to study the situation. The 

 results of these investigations were col- 

 lected and form the subject-matter of 

 Ponencia, a volume whose editing was as- 



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