“Communicate also to the presidents of Cagayán and other towns that they collect the taxes of their respective towns, as soon as possible; and a president who shall not have collected the taxes on my arrival in the respective town, shall be hung without any hesitation whatsoever.
“I desire that the Presidents meet there soon and await my arrival.”
—P. I. R., 970. 5.
[21] P. I. R., 1102. 7.
[22] Ibid., 970. 11.
[23] “March 20, 1900.
“Manuel Tinio y Bubdloc,
“Brigadier General and Commander in Chief of operations in the region of Ilocos.
“Considering that a sufficient time has passed and various means of having been employed as benignant as humanity counsels, to inculcate in the minds of many misguided Filipinos the idea of the country and to check in the beginning those unworthy acts which many of them commit, and which not only redound to the prejudice of the troops but also to the cause they defend, and having observed that such action does not produce any favourable result on this date, in accordance with the powers vested in me, I have deemed proper to issue the following:—
“Proclamation