with article 1st of this law, whatever may be the nature and circumstances of the theft.
Art. 13. The sentence of death pronounced for offences provided for by this law shall be executed within the delays prescribed in it, and it is prohibited that any demands for pardon be gone through. If the sentence is not of death, and the criminal is a foreigner, even after its execution, the government may use towards him the faculty it has to expel from the territory of the nation all obnoxious strangers.
Art. 14. Amnesty is granted to all those who may have belonged, and may still belong, to armed bands, if they present themselves to the authorities before the 15th of November next, provided they have not committed any other offences subsequently to the date of the present law. The authorities will receive the arms of those who will present themselves to accept the amnesty.
Art. 15. The government reserves the faculty to declare when the provisions of this law will cease.
Each one of our ministers is charged with the execution of this law in the part which concerns him, and will give the necessary orders for its strict observance.
Given at the palace of Mexico on the 3d of October, 1865.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged with the ministry of state.
Jose F. Ramirez.
The Minister of War,
Juan de Dios Peza.
The Minister of Improvement,
Luis Robles Pezuela.
The Minister of the Interior,
Jose Maria Esteva
The Minister of Justice,
Pedro Escudero y Echanova.
The Minister of Public Instruction and Religious Worship,
Manuel Siliceo.
The Sub-Secretary of the Treasury,
Francisco de P. Cesar.
