Extract from proceedings in the Cortes July 28, 1873. Approval of hill extending the first chapter of the Spanish constitution to Porto Rico, July 29, 1873

Extract from proceedings in the Cortes July 28, 1873. Approval of hill extending the first chapter of the Spanish constitution to Porto Rico.

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The report of the permanent colonial committee on the bill extending to Porto Rico the first title of the constitution of 1869 was then taken up for debate, and there being no deputy to ask the floor upon the bill as a whole, it was then submitted to discussion by articles, and articles 1 and 2 were approved without debate.

Article 3 was read, when

Mr. Diaz Quintero said: I do not rise to impugn the article, but to make a protest and to say that, although I am not in conformity with the whole bill, I accept it as the least possible evil.

Without further discussion article 3 was approved, as were likewise articles 4 and 5, and it was announced that the bill would go before the committee on the correction of style, and that a day would be designated for putting it to a final vote.

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