Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 815.00/1124.

Congressional decree declaring martial law. ¹

[Translation.]

The National Congress, considering that the territory of the Republic has been invaded by Gen. Manuel Bonilla with the object of overthrowing the constitutionally established Government, whereby it is necessary to invest the Executive with the extraordinary powers which the martial law confers upon him for the reestablishment of peace,

Decrees: That the Republic is declared to be under martial law from this date.

Given in Tegucigalpa on the twentieth day of January, nineteen hundred and eleven.

Francisco Escobar,
President of the Congress.

1. Transmitted by the American Minister in dispatch No. 123 of Jan. 25, 1911.