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ing article shall be called the ^ Provisional Junta 

 of Government.' 



8th, Lieutenant-General Don Juan O'Do- 

 naju shall be a member of the Provisional Junta 

 of Government, in consideration of its being ex- 

 pedient that a person of his rank should take an 

 active and immediate part in the government, and 

 of the indispensable necessity of excluding some 

 of the individuals mentioned in the above Plan of 

 Iguala, conformably to its own spirit. 



" 9th, The Provisional Junta of Government 

 shall have a president elected by itself from its 

 own body, or from without it, to be determined 

 by the absolute plurality of votes ; and if on the 

 first scrutiny the votes be found equal, a second 

 scrutiny shall take place, which shall embrace 

 those two who shall have received the greatest 

 number of votes. 



" 10th, The first act of the Provisional Junta 

 shall be the drawing up of a manifesto of its in- 

 stallation, and the motives of its assemblage, to- 

 gether with whatever explanations it may deem 

 convenient and proper for the information of the 



country, with respect to the public interests, and 



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