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"5th.

Persons arriving from a neighboring town or province in any pueblo of this province will immediately present themselves before the presidente of said pueblo with their passes.

He will without charge, stamp them with his official seal." [319] These are peculiar regulations for a province which is at peace, and as Major Taylor has truly remarked:-- "The form of liberty contemplated by the founders of the Philippine Republic was not considered incompatible with a very considerable absence of personal freedom." [320] Later, when travelling through Mindoro, I was told how an unfortunate legless Spaniard, who had been running a small shop in one of the towns and who was on good terms with his Filipino neighbors, was carried out into the plaza, seated in a chair, and then cut to pieces with bolos in the presence of his wife and children who were compelled to witness the horrible spectacle! On this same trip Captain R.G.Offley, then the American Governor of Mindoro, told me while I was at Pinamalayan that the people there were greatly alarmed because a murderer, liberated under the amnesty, had returned and was prowling about in that vicinity.

This man had a rather unique record.

He had captured one of his enemies, and after stripping him completely had caused the top of an immense ant-hill to be dug off.