Perhaps it did, for they seem to have continued, at least for a time, to obey them.

On November 14, 1898, Aguinaldo again approved an election for local officials in Tondo which since August 13 had been within the American lines." On August 23 San Carlos, in Pangasinan Province, a town of twenty-three thousand people, elected its officials under the new form of government.

The presidente chosen was a well-known member of the Katipunan, and before the election was held announced his intention of killing any one who was chosen for the position for which he was a candidate.

[370] He was accordingly elected.

In spite of this grave informality, an informality which formed one ground for a protest on the part of some of the people of the town, Aguinaldo approved the election.
On October 21, 1898, an election was held under the supervision of the military commander in Camarines for the municipal officials of the town of Yriga.