Fuente to The Citizen, May 28, 1863

4.—Law of May 27, 1863.

Department of Foreign Relations and of Government.

The citizen President of the republic has been pleased to address to me the following decree:

Benito Juarez, constitutional President of the United Mexican States, to the inhabitants of the same maketh known, that the congress of the Union has been pleased to decree the following:

Article 1. The suspension of individual guarantees ordained by the law of the 27th October, 1862, and the concession of powers which by the said law was made to the executive, is hereby extended until thirty days after the next meeting of Congress in ordinary session, or before, if the war with France is terminated, continuing also in force the conditions and restrictions imposed upon the Executive by the aforesaid law.

Article 2. In what relates to treaties, agreements or diplomatic conventions that the government may conclude, it is understood that no intervention of any kind shall be admitted.

Dated in the hall of sessions of the Congress of the Union, in Mexico, May 27, 1863.

S. LERDO DE TEJADA, President of Congress.

Francisco Bustemente, Secretary.

M. M. Ovando, Secretary.

Wherefore, I order that it be printed, published, and observed.

National Palace of Mexico, May 27, 1863.

BENITO JUAREZ.

The Citizen Juan Antonio de la Fuente, Minister of Foreign Relations and of Government.

And I communicate the same to you for the consequent ends.