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Pardoned By Blanco

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Day
12
Month
November
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Havana, Nov. 9. - Marshal Blanco ha lssued the followingr edict, officially de scribed as "expressing the magnani nous sentiments of the queen regent and the firm determination of the national government:" "I pardon in full all those who have been prosecuted for thé crime of rebenion. "Rebels prosecuted forcommon crimes, independent of rebellion, such as spoliation, immorality and the like, will be pardoned as rebels, but judged for other offenses committed by them. "Those suffering sentences imposed prior to the date of the edict will have their sentence commuted to a certain extent, and perhaps in some cases in full. "Persons pardoned should appear before the civil and military authorities at their respective places of residences, which they will desígnate and which will be communicated to me. Within the Military Z.me. "Should they desígnate places of residence outside the principal towns, they will be advised of the necessity of residing within the military zone of cultivation. The military authorities will be careful not to invade the jurisdiction of the civil authorities. Therefore, those pardoned cannot change their residence without obtaining the permission of both civil and military authorities." General Blanco's decree announcing pardon for political crimes does not extend in its action to "crimes" punished under special military law. To this category belong all the important revolutionists. They have been sentenced for "rebellion and incendiarism" at the game time, the first offense being political and the second a common crime. The pardon, therefore, amounts to cothing practically, since, from General Gomez down to the last soldier in the revolutionary ranks, all have been sentenced by Spanish court-martials a.a common outlaws.

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