SPAIN. 



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frcodman shall acquire the full enjoyment of liU civil 

 i-i.-iii-. and his capital shall be paid to him. 



in. Tim control will alm> hr iininillrd : first, by 

 t lie ni.'irriM.'i- of tin- t'lvc-ilnmn. when the Baroo is entered 

 Into by females over fourteen years and males over 

 fiu'liiceii years old ; second, by a proved bad treatment on 

 tin 1 part of the guardian, or his non-compliance with his 

 duty, a* Kilpuliiti'd In article seventh; third, should the 

 guardian prostitute or favor the prostitution of tue froed- 

 wonmii. 



ART. 11. The above-mentioned control Is transmissible 

 by till iiu-.-iii-i known in law. and is also reslgnable when 

 just motives exist. Legitimate or illegitimate parents 

 who ure I'ree shall bo permitted to assume the control of 

 their children by the payment to the guardian of the 

 same of tiny expense he may have incurred for acconnt of 

 the freedman. Subsequent regulations will settle the 

 ba-is of this indemnification. 



ABT. 12. The superior civil governor shall form, in the 

 space of one month from the publication of this law, lists 

 or the slaves comprised in articles three and five. 



A KT. 13. The freed persons mentioned in the foregoing 

 article, remain under the control of the state. This con- 

 trol is confined to protecting them, defending^ them, and 

 furnishing them the means of gaining a livelihood, with- 

 out limiting their liberty in the slightest degree. Those 

 who prefer to return to Africa shall be conveyed thither. 



ABT. 14. The slaves referred to in article four may re- 

 main with their owners, who shall thus acquire control 

 over them. When they shall have preferred to continue 

 with their former masters, it shall be optional with the 

 latter to give them compensation or not, but, in all cases, 

 as well ao in that of the freed persons bein? unable to 

 maintain themselves by reason of physical disability, it 

 shall bo the duty of the said former masters to feed them, 

 clothe them, and care for them in sickness. This duty 

 shall be a concomitant of the right to employ them in 

 labors suitable to their condition. Should the freedman 

 object to the compliance with his obligation to labor, or 

 should he create disturbances at the house of his guar- 

 dian, the authorities will decide the question arising there- 

 from, after having first heard the freedman. 



ART. 15. If the freedman, of his own free will, shall 

 leave the control of bis former master, the latter shall no 

 longer fce under the obligations mentioned in the fore- 

 going article. 



ART. 10. The Government shall provide the means 

 necessary for the indemnifications made necessary by the 

 present law. by means of a tax upon those who still re- 

 mained in slavery, ranging from eleven to sixty years of 

 age. 



ABT. 17. Any act of cruelty, duly justified as having 

 been inflicted by the tribunals of justice, will bring with 

 it as a consequence the freedom of the slave suffering such 

 excess of chastisement. 



ABT. 18. Any concealment impeding the application of 

 the benefits of this law shall be punished according to 

 title thirteen of the penal code. 



ABT. 19. All those shall be considered free who do not 

 appear enrolled in the census drawn up in the Inland of 

 Porto Rico the 81st of December, 1869, and in that which 

 will have been drawn up in the Island of Cuba on the 81st 

 of December of the present year 1870. 



ABT. 20. The Government shall make a special regula- 

 tion for the execntlon of this law. 



ABT. 21. The Government will report to the Cortes, 

 when the Cuban deputies shall have been admitted, a bill 

 for the compensated emancipation of those who remain 

 in slavery after the establishment of this law. 



Meantime this emancipation is carried into effect ; the 

 penalty of the whip, authorized by chapter thirteen of 

 the regulations for Porto Rico and Cuba, shall be abol- 

 ished; neither can there be sold separately from their 

 mothers children younger than fourteen years, nor slaves 

 who are united in matrimony. 



By a resolution of the Congressional Cortes the fore- 

 going is reported to the Regent of the kingdom for its 

 promulgation as a law. 



MANl'EL RUIZ ZOR1LLA, President. 

 MANUEL DE LIANGS Y i'ERSI, Deputy Sec'y. 

 JL'LIAX SANCHEZ RUANO, Deputy Sec'y. 

 FRANCISCO JAVIER CARRATALA, Dep. Sec. 

 MARIANO RUIZ, Deputy Secretary. 

 PALACE OF THE COHTKS, June 23, 1870. 



Therefore, I order all tribunals, justices, officers, gov- 

 ernors, and other authorities, of whatsoever class or po- 

 sition, to obey the same and cause it to be obeyed, com- 

 plied with, and executed in all its parts. 



FRANCISCO SERRANO. Minister of Ultramar. 

 SIGISMUNDO MORET Y PRENDERGAST. 

 SAN ILDEFONSO, July 4, 1870. 



And, having opportunely omitted the publication 

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of the same for the want of the regulation referred 

 to in article twenty, and having received the sense 

 in which said document is to be drawn up, I have 

 ordered the exact compliance of aaid law, in virtue 

 of which it is inserted in the OMcwl Gazette for future 

 guidance. CABALlJBEO J>K KODA8. 



HAVAWA, September 28, lh"u. 



Toward the middle of October, a steamer 

 with 3,000 troops for the reinforcement of the 

 army arrived at Havana, and was followed, in 

 about a fortnight, by two other steamers, with 

 1,500 each. 



On the 15th of October, Captain- General de 

 Kodas issued an order liberating 2,000 appren- 

 ticed negroes, captured from slavers in the 

 years 1855, 1856, and 1857. On the 2d of De- 

 cember, news reached Havana, by telegraph, 

 that the homo Government had accepted the 

 resignation of Captain-General de Bodas, which 

 had been repeatedly tendered. Count Val- 

 maseda, having been appointed his temporary 

 successor, arrived at Havana from the interior, 

 on December 7th, to relieve General de Rodas. 



AH official correspondence took place with 

 regard to the offer, on the part of the Govern- 

 ment of the United States, of its good offices 

 for the purpose of bringing to a close the civil 

 war ravaging the Island of Cuba. (See DIPLO- 

 MATIC CORRESPONDENCE.) 



A deep impression seems, however, to have 

 been made in Spain by the overtures on the 

 part of the United States, and, as the expec- 

 tations of an early subduing of the insurrection 

 were not realized, overtures were made at 

 Washington in December, 1870, to a prominent 

 public man, known to be friendly to the Cubans, 

 for the purpose of obtaining his influence in 

 ascertaining what terms of peace, if any, 

 could be made between the combatants. ThV 

 gentleman submitted, as the least he would con- 

 sent to bear to the Cubans, the following points r 



1. Emancipation, unconditional and immediate. 



2. A complete restoration of civil and property 

 rights, including a reversal of all confiscations. 



8. A guarantee of religious freedom, the liberty of 

 the press, of meeting, and of speech. 



4. Equal representation for Cuba in the Cortes, as 

 that accorded to other provinces of Spain. 



5. A colonial autonomy similar to that existing be- 

 tween Great Britain and the British North- American 

 provinces. 



6. The removal by the home Government of all 

 offensive officials. 



7. That Spain and Cuba should consent that the 

 United States should see that these guarantees were 

 enforced and complied with by both parties. 



The last condition appears to have been the 

 stumbling-block on the Spanish side, but even 

 that was consented to. The Cubans, however, 

 felt compelled to refuse approval, upon the dis- 

 tinct ground that nothing short of independence 

 could be sought by them. The atrocities per- 

 petrated against them rendered it impossible 

 that the two parties could live peaceably to- 

 gether. 



STEWART, Rev. CHABLES SAMUEL, D. D., a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, Senior Chaplain in 

 the United States Navy, born in Fleraington, 

 N. J., about 1795 ; died in Cooperstown, N. Y., 



