The codes of the Republic., the 8th day of March, 1877

The codes of the Republic.

On the 8th day of the month, the following decree was published:

Decree No. 175.

J. Rufino Barrios, general of division and president of the republic of Guatemala, considering that the legislation which up to the present has ruled the republic, and which for the greater part being the old Spanish legislation, is incomplete, confused, and difficult in its understanding and explanation, on account of being embodied in different acts: that the government, with the idea of replacing these defective laws by codes which may be in conformity with the advance of the age and the progress of the country, named, in an act of July 26, 1875, a commission of lawyers intrusted with the drawing up of said codes, and that the said commission has given an account of the projects of the civil code and of the proceedings which are in conformity with the principles of modern legislation, and adaptable to the peculiar circumstances of the republic; and in use of the ample faculties with which I am invested, I decree the following codes civil and of proceedings which shall begin to rule the republic from the 15th day of September next.

(Here follow the codes.)

For the which, let this be published for its solemn promulgation and observance.