José Velasquez to A true copy from the original, which remains in this bureau, taken for the ends to which article 4 of the same relates. Jalpan, May 12, 1868 . JOSÉ MARIA VEGA, May 22, 1868

Plan proclaimed by the insurgents of the state of Queretaro.

At the town of Jalpan, in the Sierra Gorda, this 8th day of the month of May, 1868, the chiefs and officers who are undersigned, being met for the purpose of concerting a plan which shall put an end to a system commenced with scaffolds erected for heroes, after having taken into consideration the iniquitous cruelty with which Don Benito Juarez and the leaders of his party have forced themselves into power; the organization of the authority they exercise, founded in laws such as that of the 25th of January, which has resuscitated in the midst of the nineteenth century the age of barbarity and of the most infamous feudalism; that in the name of that same law has sacrificed noble victims, who, in place of a scaffold, merited an altar raised to their civic virtues and to their heroism; that among those victims vilely immolated is found his Excellency General Thomas Mejia, who has gloriously associated his name with this sierra; considering that a government such as the present, which, on being conquered and in defeat, sought, as in the year 1859, a refuge and aid in the folds of the North American flag, offers no guarantees for the future, but, on the contrary, threatens the sacrifice in a scandalous manner of our territory and our nationality for the benefit of our common enemies, the Anglo-Saxons; that, before a day so unfortunate for our couutry shall arrive, it is necessary to intrust its interests to the worthy hands that will save it, as on another unfortunate occasion—after having taken all this into consideration, we have agreed, in the most solemn manner, upon the following plan:

Article 1. The sanguinary government of Don Benito Juarez is disowned, as well as all the authorities, general or local, emanating from the late elections held under the conveatoria of the 14th of August last.

Art. 2. The system which shall rule in the nation shall be the republican, and its chief shall be the well-deserving of his country, his excellency the general of division Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

Art. 3. Colonel José Velasquez is hereby recognized as the chief of the forces of the Sierra Gorda.

Art. 4. Copies of the present act shall he remitted where it shall correspond.

Viva his Excellency Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna! Viva the people and the army!