state of cuaca., the 28th of July, 1871

state of cuaca.

The Official Gazette of Popayan publishes the following law on the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State:

The sovereign people of Cuaca, and in their name, the State legislature, decrees:

• Article 1. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of the State is extended to all places, as comprehended within the limits determined by Article 1 of the constitution of the Colombian Union, and within those it possessed at the time of the sanction of the same constitution, according to the laws of the 11th of May and the 9th of June, 1855, the 14th of May and the 15th of June, 1857, issued by the national congress.
• Article 2. In all those affairs that were not delegated to the federal government, as especially and clearly expressed by Article 16 of the national constitution, the State will continue in the use of its competency and jurisdiction. And in it no authority of the federal government will be recognized as regards the modification or alteration of the laws, that are solely for the cognizance of the State.
• Article 3. It is the duty of the State government to see that the State is not divided, and also to protect its citizens in the exercise of the rights they may have acquired in any part of the territory.
• Article 4. When the government may have to enter an action or sustain any claim, before other authorities than those of the State, for attacks upon its sovereignty, jurisdiction, or property, the executive power will name counsel, who will be charged with the defense of the rights attacked, giving him the necessary instructions.
• Article 5. The rights of the State do not lapse for less than one hundred years, and when it is discovered that a person unlawfully possesses property or articles of value of the State, it will be the duty of those public agents that know it to inform the executive power, in order that they may be claimed.
• Those who, introducing themselves into the territory of the State or its districts, usurp the roads and public ways, will be obliged, by the political or municipal authority of the place where the usurpation is denounced, to make a restitution to the usurped, they remaining after this restitution discharged, in order to take the necessary steps toward commencing an action for the corresponding claim before the competent authority.
• Article 6. It is the duty of all the inhabitants of,Cuaca to defend and sustain the sovereignty of the State, and those who should fail to do so will incur the penalties fixed by the existing laws.
• Article 7. The public functionaries of the State will not be allowed to receive any employment from the federal government. Those who should do so will be compelled to vacate the offices which they are exercising.
• Article 8. It is the duty of the President of the State to maintain the militia in a high state of organization, to be able to fulfill, should the case arrive, the obligation of which Article 26 of the federal constitution treats.
• Article 9. Laws 24 and 68, and articles 4 and 5 of law 226, are abolished.