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The new population shall also be exempt from the impost on stamped 

 paper, being permitted to use common paper for their petitions and 

 contracts. 



Article 21. 



It shall be permitted in the new settlements that the individuals who 

 form them may unite themselves in municipal corporations, under the 

 presidency of the governors of the respective districts or territories, for 

 the purpose of making laws relative to the local administration, without 

 giving the governors created by this decree any power to interfere with 

 rights, of whatever nature, in respect to individual liberty ; they only 

 taking care for the preservation of public order, and of the national 

 authority, in conformity with the laws. 



Article 22. 



Because this territory is a new establishment, and has no judicial 

 authorities, it shall be permitted, for the administration of justice, that 

 the new settlers shall name their own judges, electing them in the form 

 most convenient, until Congress shall legislate in relation to the admin- 

 istration of justice and in municipal affairs. 



The other articles divide the territory proposed to be settled into 

 districts : four on the Amazon, from Loreto upwards to Nauta ; two on 

 the Ucayali, from the mouth to Sarayacu ; and four on the Huallaga, 

 from the mouth of Tingo Maria — all under the direction of a governor 

 general established at Loreto. The Intendente general of the missions 

 of Pozuzu, which are near the sources of the Pachitea, a confluent of 

 the Ucayali, is directed to observe the conditions of the decree ; while 

 the governors of the Upper Mission, which is all the country on both 

 sides of the Amazon above the mouth of the Huallaga, are directed to 

 exercise their authority as before, in dependence on the prefecture of 

 Amazonas, until special decrees shall be issued for their guidance and 

 government. 



Article 25 appropriates the funds necessary to open roads from 

 Cerro Pasco to Pozuzu, and from Pozuzu to Mayro, at the head of 

 navigation on the Pachitea, under the direction of the intendente of 

 Pozuzu. So that my old chatty acquaintance of Huanuco, whom Col. 

 Lucar designated as the best animal magnetizer in the world, has at 

 last carried his point and accomplished his long-cherished purpose. If 

 the country between Cerro Pasco and Mayro be such as he described it, 



