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these disorders, by uniting all the finances and forces of the nation under 

 one Director or President, to be elected in the most just and constitutional 

 manner. 



" That an assembly should be elected in each of the Federal provinces by 

 the free and unbiassed votes of their constituents. From each of these 

 assemblies, one or more deputies (according to the population of the pro- 

 vince which they represented) should be nominated as members of a 

 general Congress, which should meet at the convent of San Lorenzo, in 

 the province of Santa Fe (being the most central situation), seventy days 

 subsequent to the date of the treaty ; when they were to select from 

 amongst their own body, the President before mentioned ; and enact such 

 general laws as would be deemed most salutary for the public. That there 

 might not remain a shadow of oppression in this convention, all military 

 forces should be distant at least twenty leagues. 



" That in consequence of the vast extension of the territories included in 

 this treaty, local circumstances, qualities, and properties peculiar to each 

 province, must be admitted to have a particular influence on its laws and 

 customs ; hence, it became necessary that each should be governed by 

 laws established by its own assembly, the laws enacted by the Congress 

 only tending to the general utility of the provinces collectively. 

 " That the finances, and all the forces of the nation, should be exclusively 

 at the disposition of the President and Congress. No particular province 

 should raise, organise, or train soldiers or militia, but by orders of the 

 supreme government ; and when such soldiers or militia were so organised 

 or trained, they should be liable to be commanded to whatever part their 

 presence might be most necessary. 



" That Don Manuel Saratea should be nominated Governor of Buenos 

 Ayres for the time being, and till the will of the assembly of Buenos Ayres 

 should be further known. 



" That the Federal army should retire from the province of Buenos Ayres, 

 by divisions not exceeding two hundred men each, for the greater conve- 

 nience of supplying them with provisions, &c. in their regression ; the first 

 division to march in three days from that time, and the number of days 

 between the marches of the succeeding divisions not to exceed eight." 

 Saratea quietly took possession of his office according to the treaty. Cir- 

 cular letters were despatched to the different provinces requesting the attend- 

 ance of their deputies, at the time appointed. 



