PROJECT OF THE LAW OF AMNESTY. The Junta of Representatives of the province of Buenos Ayres, exercising the ordinary and extraordinary sovereignty with which it is invested, has resolved on and decreed, with all the value and force of law, the following SOLE ARTICLE. Criminal informations, instituted on account of political opinions anterior to this day, shall not preclude any person from the full enjoyment of the security which the law accords, in the province of Buenos Ayres, to persons and property. (Signed) RIVADAVIA. RESOLUTION OF THE HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE LAW OF AMNESTY. The Honourable Junta having taken into consideration, in various sessions, the note of your Excellency, dated 2d of September last, and the project of the law which accompanied it, relative to criminal informations instituted on account of political opinions anterior to that day, not precluding any person from the full enjoyment of the security which the law accords, in the province of Buenos Ayres, to persons and property, has resolved as follows:- 1. The law of amnesty, presented by the Government to the Provincial Representation for its approval, shall again be taken into consideration at the expiration of four months, reckoning from the 6th day of October last past. 2. In the mean time, all those shall be restored to the country who have been separated from it without any legal process, by express order of the Government, delivered by virtue of the extraordinary powers granted by the Honourable Junta on the 6th October of the year last past.. 3. Those may return to the province who voluntarily absented themselves from it, in order to shelter themselves from the perils of the popular commotions. 4. What is in the two foregoing articles does not apply in favour of those who, during the time of their absence, have adopted measures or formed projects of conspiracy against the government and tranquillity of the province; neither does it benefit officers who have deserted from their colours. And, by order of the same Honourable Junta, this is communicated to your Excellency for your information and subsequent government.-God preserve your Excellency many years. Hall of Representatives in Buenos Ayres, 9th November, 1821. (Signed) VALENTIN GOMEZ, President. PEDRO ANDRES GARCIA, Secretary of Votes pro tempore. To the Most Excellent the Governor and Captain-general of the Province. LAW OF AMNESTY. The Government has received the following communication: "In the session of last night the Honourable Junta of Representatives of this province sanctioned the following law : 66 SOLE ARTICLE. "Criminal informations, instituted on account of political opinions anterior to this day, shall not preclude any person from the full enjoyment of the security which the law accords, in the province of Buenos Ayres, to persons and property. 66 By order of the aforesaid Honourable Junta, this is communicated to your Excellency for your information, respective publication, and corresponding measures.-God preserve your Excellency many years. (Signed) "JUAN JOSE PASO, President. "JOSE SEVERO MALAVIA, "Hall of Representatives in Buenos Ayres,. 7th May, 1822. "To the Most Excellent the Governor and Captain-general of the Province." Secretary. Buenos Ayres, 8th May, 1822. By virtue of the preceding communication, the Government has resolved on and decreed : 1. Let it be inserted in the Official Register, and let it be complied with. 2. The second article of the decree of the 13th of November, 1821, is revoked. 3. The revocation established by the foregoing article shall be promulgated by especial communication to those whom it concerns. 4. The Minister Secretary of Government is charged with the execution of this decree, which shall be inserted in the Official Register. Buenos Ayres, 21st April, 1824. THE Government has resolved on and decreed 1. With reference to the deliberation of this date, in an additional sheet to No. 4, of the Official Register of this year, let publication be made of the principal documents of the correspondence between the Commissioner at the Court of Brazil, and the Minister of the said Court, on the evacuation of the province of Monte Video. 2. Let it be circulated through all the provinces with reference to the beforementioned deliberation, reserving all other points till the time when the new Governor elect shall have entered on his command. (Signed) BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA. MEMORANDUM, Presented by the Commissioner of the Government of Buenos Ayres, at the Court of Brazil, to the Minister of State in the department of Foreign Affairs of the said Court. When Buenos Ayres, capital of the ancient viceroyalty of La Plata, raised the shout of insurrection, in the month of May 1810, against the despotic government of Spain-the greater part of which country at that period was occupied by French troops-and when, overthrowing the authorities of the mother-country, she organized a provisional government, and placed herself at the head of the new order of things, the natural consequence ensued; and other provinces, repeating an G |