JOAQUIN AQUIRRE, President to Officials of the provisional government of Spain: Decree issued from the war department: In compliance with the duty intrusted to me by the nation, and by the power with which it has clothed me, as the president, I now form the following provisional government: Department of War. —, October 8, 1868
Declaration of rights.
The superior revolutionary junta, faithful to its high origin, makes the following declaration of rights:
Universal suffrage.
Liberty of worship.
Liberty of teaching.
Liberty of assembling and of pacific associations.
Liberty of printing without special legislation.
Decentralization of the administration, returning to the provinces and the municipalities their autonomy.
Trial by jury in all criminal cases.
Unity of legal rights in all branches of the administration of justice.
Immobility of the judges.
Individual security, inviolability of domicile, and of private correspondence.
Abolition of the death penalty.
Officials of the provisional government of Spain:
Decree issued from the war department:
In compliance with the duty intrusted to me by the nation, and by the power with which it has clothed me, as the president, I now form the following provisional government:
Department of War.—Lieutenant General Don Juan Prim, Marquis de los Castellejos.
Department of State.—Don Juan Alvarez de Lorenzana.
Department of Grace and Justice.—Don Antonio Romero Ortez.
Department of the Navy.—Don Juan Topete, Commander of the Fleet.
Department of Finance.—Don Lameano Figuerola.
Department of Government.—Don Praxedes Mateo Sagasta.
Department of Industry.—Don Manuel Ruiz Zorilla.
Department of the Colonies.—Don Adelardo Lopez de Ayala.