[XV-9] His substitutes were Francisco Güell, Leonardo Romero, and Manuel Emigdio Vazquez.
[XV-10] Rivera, Landa, and Martinez were shot together.
[XV-11] Decrees of Feb. 4 and March 19, 1846.
[XV-12] This proceeding was communicated to the governor of Chiapa for the information of his government. The proclamations were published in Mexico, and probably elsewhere; but I am not aware that the American government took any action upon them. Id., 236-7; Sun of Anáhuac, Sept. 14, 1847; El Arco Iris, Sept. 22, Oct. 4, 17, 1847; El Razonador, Oct. 30, 1847; El Sonorense, Nov. 12, 1847.
[XV-13] It provided for only one chamber, and he wanted another for the aristocracy. It recognized freedom of conscience and religion, which to his mind was heresy.
[XV-14] It contained 114 articles; recognized the people as the source of power and sovereignty. All persons born in the states of Cent. Am. and residing in Hond. were given the privileges of full citizenship. Foreigners might become naturalized. The right of suffrage was given to citizens over 21 years of age who could read and write. The state recognized no other religion than the Roman catholic, excluding the public exercise of all others. The government, declared to be popular and representative, was vested in three powers, namely, legislative, executive, and judicial. The executive was placed in charge of a president for four years, and not eligible for two consecutive terms. He appointed his ministers, who had a seat in the legislature. There was a council of state provided, its members being one senator chosen by the gen. assembly, one justice of the supreme court, the minister of the interior, the treasurer, and two citizens elected by the gen. assembly. The assembly was formed of one chamber with 14 deputies, being two for each department, and the senate with 7 members. The judiciary consisted of the supreme and lower courts. The supreme court was divided into two sections, of three justices each, one to sit in Comayagua, and the other in Tegucigalpa. Each department had a jefe político at its head. Hond., Constit. de 1848, 1-21; Squier's Cent. Am., 258-65.
[XV-15] The next term would begin on the 1st of Feb., 1852.
[XV-16] Nic., Cor. Ist., Aug. 1, 1849; La Union (S. Salv.), June 15, 1849.
[XV-17] The following were the terms agreed upon: a general amnesty; the confederate diet was to meet at Nacaome, protected by 200 Salvadorans and as many Nicaraguans at the expense of Hond.; and the state assembly also to redress certain alleged grievances; and Jáuregui's conduct in Costa R. to be investigated. All of which was done. Cent. Am., Miscel. Doc., nos. 29-33, 36-43, 50-5; Salv., Gaceta, March 15, Apr. 4, 18, May 10, 1850; Costa R., Gaceta, March 2, 1850; Nic., Cor. Ist., Apr. 4, May 2, 16, 1850; Guardiola, Carta Ofic., March 30, 1850; Squier's Travels, ii. 182. The chambers on the 29th of June declared Lindo a benemérito de la patria, conferring on him the rank of general of division for life, from the expiration of his presidential term. Hond., Gaceta Ofic., Aug. 31, 1850.
[XV-18] The Spaniards knew but little of this region, believing it unhealthy, and had hardly made any attempts themselves to cut wood there. Cancelada, Tel. Mexicano, 104-11, computed at nearly twenty-two million dollars the loss sustained by Spain to 1812, including in that sum the original cost, and the resulting profits which had accrued, mostly to the English.