The development of Philippine politics

APPENDIX C (1)
AGUINALDO'S PROCLAMATION OF JUNE 23, 1898,
ESTABLISHING THE REVOLUTIONARY
GOVERNMENT.
Don Emilio Againaldo y Famy, president of the revolutionary
government of the Philippines and general in chief of its army.
This Government desiring to demonstrate to the Philippine people that one of its ends is to combat with a firm hand the inveterate vices of the Spanish adm-inistration, substituting for personal luxury and th-at pompous ostentation which have made it a mere
matter of routine, cumbrous and slow in its movements, another
administration more modest, simple, and prompt in performing the
public service, I decree, as follows:
CHAPTER.L.-Of the revolutionary government.
ARTICLE L The dictatorial government will be entitled hereafter the revolutionary government, whose object is to struggle for
the independence of the Philippines until all nations, including the
Spanish, shall expressly recognize it, and to prepare the country so
that a true republic may be established.
The dictator will be entitled hereafter president of the revohitionary government.
ART. II. Four secretaryships of government are created-one"
of foreign affairs, navy, and commerce; another of war and public
works; another of police and internal order, justice, education,
and hygiene; and another of finance, agriculture, and manufactur-
ing industry.
The government may increase this number of secretaryships
when it shall find in practice that this distribution is not sufficient
for the multiplied and complicated necessities of the public service.
ART. III. Each secretaryship shall aid the president in the
administration of questions concerning the different branches which
it comprises.
At the head of each one shall be a secretary, who shall not be
responsible for the decrees of the presidency, but shall sign them
with the president to give them authority.
But if it shall appear that the decree has been promulgated
on the proposition of the secretary of the department the latter
shall be responsible conjointly with the president.

(1) From The Treaty of Paris, December 10, 1898, Senate Doc. No. 62, Part I.
p. 433.