Article XI. All authorities, whether political, military, or municipal, who have not acted in accordance with the provisions of the present law against those who are suspected of or recognized as being guilty of the offenses with which it deals, shall be liable to a fine of from fifty to one thousand piasters; and when the omission implies acquaintance with the guilty, the delinquent shall be brought before the court martial, who shall judge him and inflict a penalty in proportion to the offense. Article XII. Plagiarios* shall be judged and sentenced under the provisions of Article I of the present law, without regard to the circumstances under which the abduction shall have been committed. * Kidnappers. Article XIII. Sentence of death passed upon those guilty of the offenses enumerated by the present law shall be executed in the time fixed, and the benefit of appeal for mercy shall be refused to the condemned. When the accused has not been condemned to death, and is a stranger, the government, after he shall have undergone punishment, may make use with regard to him of its right to expel from its territory pernicious strangers. Article XIV. Amnesty is proclaimed in favor of all who, having belonged or still belonging to armed bands and having committed no other offense, shall present themselves to the authorities before the 10th of next November. The authorities shall take possession of the arms of those so surrendering themselves. Article XV. The government reserves unto itself the right to fix the time when the provisions of the present law shall cease to be enforced. Each of our ministers is bound, as far as his department is concerned, to enforce the present law and to issue such orders as will secure its strict observance. Issued in the Palace of Mexico, October 3, 1865. Maximilian. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, intrusted with the Department of State, Jose F. Ramirez. The Minister of Commerce, Luis Robles Pezuela. The Minister of the Interior, Jose Maria Esteva. The Minister of War, Juan de Dios Peza. The Minister of Justice, Pedro Escudero y Echanove. The Minister of Public Instruction and of Cults, Manuel Siliceo. The Under-Secretary of the Treasury, Francisco de P. Cesar. APPENDIX B TREATY OF MIRAMAR, SIGNED ON APRIL 10, 1864 Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national will Emperor of the French, to all who will see the present letters, Greeting: A convention, followed by secret additional articles, having been concluded on April 10,1864, between France and Mexico, to settle the conditions of the sojourn of French troops in Mexico, the said convention and secret additional articles are as follows: