said sum will have to be subject to the conditions proposed by
the representative of the Government, H.E. the General-in-Chief of
this Army. These conditions were agreed to be as follows, viz.:--

(1) For the rebels in arms a draft for the sum of P400,000 will
be handed to Senor Paterno, payable in Hong-Kong, as well as
two cheques for P200,000 each, payable only on the condition
of the Agreement being fulfilled on the other part. (2) For
the families of those who were not rebels in arms, or engaged
in rebellion, but who have likewise suffered the evils of war,
the balance of the sum offered shall be paid in three equal
instalments, the last to be paid six months after the date on
which the _Te Deum_ shall be sung, assuming the peace to become
an accomplished fact. Peace shall be held to be effectively
concluded if, during the interval of these instalment periods,
no party of armed rebels, with recognized leader, shall exist,
and if no secret society shall have been discovered as existing
here or abroad with the proved object of conspiracy by those who
benefit by these payments. The representative of the rebels, Don
Pedro Alejandro Paterno, and the representative of the Government,
the Captain-General Don Fernando Primo de Rivera, agree to the
above conditions, in witness whereof each representative now
signs four copies of the same tenour and effect, one being for
the Government, another for the archives of the Captain-Generalcy,
and one copy each for the said representatives.

[186]Done in Manila on the 15th of December, 1897.

_Fernando Primo de Rivera_,
_The General-in-Chief._
_Pedro A. Paterno_,
_The Mediator._

In the course of a few days a military deputation was sent by the
Gov.-General, under the leadership of Lieut.-Colonel Primo de Rivera,
to meet Aguinaldo and his 34 companions-in-arms at a place agreed
upon in the Province of Pangasinan. They had a repast together,
and Aguinaldo called for cheers for Spain, in which all heartily
joined. Thence they proceeded in vehicles to Sual to await the arrival
of the s.s. _Uranus_, in which they embarked for Hong-Kong on Monday,
December 27, 1897. Armed rebel troops were stationed at several places
all along the route to Sual, ready to avenge any act of treachery,
whilst two Spanish generals were held as hostages at the rebel camp
at Biac-na-bato