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The Minister in Honduras (Morales) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 9—1:33 a.m.]
98. On May 2nd the Provisional President in accordance with the Amapala peace pact issued a decree convoking a national constituent assembly to meet in Tegucigalpa to promulgate the fundamental and organic law of the Republic, the date of meeting and number of representatives to be determined in a later decree. Pending the beginning of the new constitutional regime the Provisional President is to assume all powers of the state and the courts are to act in conformity with the laws of the country but in agreement with the requirements of the regulations of public order.