"Article 18. Any concealment impeding the application of the benefits of this law shall be punished according to title 13 of the penal code.
"Article 19. All those shall be considered free who do not appear enrolled in the census drawn up in the Island of Porto Rico the 31st of December, 1869, and in that which will have been drawn up in the Island of Cuba on the 31st of December of the present year, 1870.
"Article 20. The Government shall make a special regulation for the execution of this law.
"Article 21. The Government will report to the Cortes when the Cuban deputies shall have been admitted, a bill for the compensated emancipation of those who remain in slavery after the establishment of this law. Meantime this emancipation is carried into effect; the penalty of the whip, authorized by chapter 13 of the regulations for Porto Rico and Cuba, shall be abolished; neither can there be sold separately from their mothers children younger than fourteen years, nor slaves who are united in matrimony.
"By a resolution of the Congressional Cortes the foregoing is reported to the Regent of the Kingdom for its promulgation as a law.
"Manuel Ruiz Zorilla, President.
"Manuel de Lianos y Persi, Deputy Secretary.
"Julian Sanchez Ruano, Deputy Secretary.
"Francisco Xavier Carratala, Deputy Secretary.
"Mariano Ruiz, Deputy Secretary.