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Rh resolutions by the union of so much talent and information.

By the seventh this Junta takes the name of Administrative Provisional Junta.

By the eighth O'Donoju was named member of this Junta.

By the ninth this Junta was to name a President.

By the tenth it was to inform the public of its installation, and of the motives which had caused it to meet.

By the eleventh this assembly was to name a Regency, composed of three persons, to compose the executive power, and to govern in the name of the Monarch, until his arrival.

By the twelfth the Junta was then to govern conformably to the laws, in everything which did not oppose the plan of Iguala, and till the Cortes had formed the constitution of the state.

By the thirteenth, the Regency, as soon as they were named, were to proceed to the convocation of the Cortes, according to the method decreed by the provisional Junta.

By the fourteenth, the executive power was to reside in the Regency—the legislative in the Cortes—but until the reunion of the Cortes, the legislative power was to be exercised by the Junta.

By the fifteenth, all persons belonging to the community, the system of government being changed, or the country passing into the power of another prince, were perfectly at liberty to transport themselves and their fortunes wherever they chose, &c., &c.

By the sixteenth, this does not hold good in regard