José Maria Zelaya, D to To the supreme executive power. Let it therefore be executed. Comayagua , February 9, 1875 . PONCIANO LEIVA. ADOLFO ZUNIGA, February 9, 1875

Decree No. 25.

The President of the Republic of Honduras ta its inhabitants:

Know that the sovereign Congress has decreed the following: The constitutional Congress of the republic—

Considering that the republic finds itself in the enjoyment of the most perfect peace, and the government in possession of all the necessary means to preserve that inestimable good; considering that it is a high duty of Congress to select the means by which to give final security, strengthening the peace and harmonious order of things, in all the constituent elements of society;

Considering that national and civil wars, administrative errors, have thrown upon the ex-governors of Honduras, and some towns, grave charges, and on this account have arisen cruel social hatreds and an odious spirit of reciprocal criminations for all those who have figured in the political scene; considering that in consequence, and coming from such opposite elements, have been produced the unjust quarrels that have reduced the republic; the prolonging this order of things, festering party spirit, and throwing itself into fratricidal contentions, the land (patria) cannot take the repose that it so much requires for its sons to be united and to follow in the roads of progress;

Considering that in such a melancholy expectation in which the public (pueblo) of Honduras is the victim, it is necessary to recur to the highest feelings of patriotism, to cut at the root the revolutionary ferment, give to oblivion past acts, although touching the public conduct of the different ex-governors that have succeeded to power, and in whom perhaps there was not wanting good intention, but the opportunity of acting Well with a triumphal exit:

In presence of these considerations that represent the general feeling of the country, and making use of the noble prerogative, conceded by the section 18th, 24th article of the constitution, proclaims unanimously the following decree:

• Article 1. Conceding a general, fall, and unconditional amnesty, and absolute forgetfulness of all the acts, crimes, political and official faults, that have been committed within the territory of the republic, by any town, the governments and agents, in any time, up to the publication of this law.
• In consequence, all criminal proceedings that are commenced or are in court, instancia, relative to acts, crimes, or faults embraced in this amnesty, will be stopped, excepting fiscal responsibility of all that have administered public funds, who ought to give an account as by law established.
• Art. 2. All that are absent from the republic, for the enunciated causes, are in full liberty to return to their homes when they please, without the necessity of passport.
• Art. 3. All those who are comprehended in this pardon (gratia) purposing to disturb constitutional order, lose it by the same act.
• Art. 4. It remains null and void (derogado) in all its parts, The decree of 28th April, 1875, emitted by the national convention.