“On January 7, 1899, the commissioner of Aguinaldo’s treasury sent to collect contributions of war in Nueva Ecija Province reported that the company stationed in San Isidro had become guerillas under command of its officers and opposed his collections, stating that they were acting in compliance with orders from higher authority.”[35]
And now, in following the route taken by our tourist friends, we reach Nueva Vizcaya and the Cagayan valley.
[1] Blount, p. 98.
[2] The constitution used was most certainly not patterned after our own. See p. 265.
[3] Blount, p. 111.
[4] “The light Messrs. Sargent and Wilcox throw on the then universal acknowledgment of the authority of the Aguinaldo government and the perfect tranquillity and public order maintained under it, in the Cagayan valley.”—Blount, pp. 114–115.
[5] “The country in fact, as Aguinaldo always claimed in his proclamations of that period seeking recognition of his government by the Powers, in a state of profound peace and tranquillity—free from brigandage and the like.”—Blount, p. 115.
[6] P.I.R., 958. 11.
[7] P.I.R., 849.