Manuel Doblado to The Citizen, May 3, 1862

2.—Law of May 3, 1862.

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

Article 1. The suspension of guarantees established by the law of the 11th of December, 1861, is hereby continued.

Article 2. The Executive is again authorized in the terms prescribed in the said law, with the limitations therein established; and, besides that, of not intervening in matters of a judicial order commenced, or that may be pursued, between private individuals.

Article 3. The suspension of guarantees, and the authorization to the Executive spoken of in this law, shall continue until the meeting of congress, on the 16th of September next; and if then its meeting shall be impossible, by reason of the foreign war, or from the elections not having taken place, they shall continue until the next first meeting of congress shall take place.

Article 4. In case that the regular elections of members of congress cannot take place in certain of the districts on the days prescribed by law, the government will take care to designate other periods in order that the meeting of congress may take place at the earliest possible moment.

Article 5. The Executive will give an account of the use that he may make of the faculties and powers conceded to him by this law within the first fifteen days after the meeting of the national congress.

Dated in the hall of sessions of the congress of the Union, Mexico, May 3, 1862.

JOSÉ LINARES, President of Congress.

Remigio Ibanez, Secretary.

M. M. Ovando, Secretary.

Wherefore, I order that it be printed, circulated, and that due compliance be given to it National Palace of Mexico, May 3, 1862.

BENITO JUAREZ.

The Citizen Manuel Doblado, Minister of Foreign Relations and of Government.

And I communicate the same to you for your knowledge, and the consequent ends.