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Cárlos Icaza Arosemena to Let it be published and executed. The President of the Union: RAFAEL NUÑEZ, May 7, 1880
[Inclosure in No. 228.—Translation.]
Law 19 of 1880. (May 8.)
upon public order.
The Congress of the United States of Colombia decrees:
Sole Article. The national government secures to each of the states of the union a republican form of government, in the terms established in the federal constitution, and will restrain every attempt at invasion of any one of them, as well as all domestic violence against the government of whatever state, it being always understood that in the latter case the intervention of the national government be requested by the state legislature, or in the recess thereof by the state executive power.
Given at Bogotá on the seventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
The President of the Senate of plenipotentiaries:
CÁRLOS ICAZA AROSEMENA.
The President of the Chamber of Representatives:
OCTAVIO SALAZAR.
Let it be published and executed.
The President of the Union:
RAFAEL NUÑEZ.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.