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the Republic, or exiled from it by the judicial sentence, and for the 
crime of sedition, conspiracy, and riot, will suffer death if he breaks 
his confinement or exile. 
2d. In whatever part of the Republic any one of the criminals 
included in the foregoing article may be apprehended, without the 
limits that have been assigned to him, the authorities will seize and 
shoot him, within twenty-four hours, without any other proofs than 
may be necessary to identify the person, and without suffering any 
appeal to a higher authority. 
3d. The present law will begin to act, respecting all those who are 
expelled the Republic for the crimes which are expressed in the first 
article. 
On this account I direct it to be promulgated, and to take effect in 
all parts, as a law of the state. 
^ „ (Signed) Prieto. 
Diego Portales. 
Santiago, January 28th, 1837. 
Inasmuch as the National Congress has declared the state to be in 
actual war with Peru, and in consequence clothed the President of 
the Republic with all the necessary powers that his prudence may 
find necessary, for the exigency of the state, without any other limi- 
tation than that he shall not condemn or give punishment of his own 
will, but leave these to be judged by the established tribunals, or those 
which this present government may hereafter establish. In conse- 
quence of the authority conferred upon me, I promulgate, by the 
articles forty-third and eighty-second of the constitution, sanction, 
approve, and order the foregoing decree to be made public, through 
the P re ^ Prieto. & 
Diego Portales. 
Santiago, 31st January, 1837. 
This decree did not fail to renew the complaints of old parties 
against the government as despotic, &c. To carry on the war, part 
ot two battalions of a veteran regiment from the south arrived at 
Valparaiso, under the command of Colonel Vidaurre, a brave and 
distinguished officer. They were ordered to Quillota, where recruits 
were to join them, until the regiment should be full, and where they 
were to be drilled and disciplined, for embarkation. Vidaurre was 
appointed head of the staff of the army, under Admiral Blanco 
J^ncalada, commander-in-chief. A regiment of one thousand four 
