"Article XX. The President shall treat with Ambassadors, and shall see that the laws are faithfully executed. He shall also issue commissions to all the functionaries of the Republic. "Article XXI. The President shall propose the names of the members of his Cabinet to the House of Representatives for its approval. "Article XXII. The Judiciary shall form an independent co-ordinate department of the Government, under the organization of a special law. "Article XXIII. Voters are required to possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship as the members of House of Representatives. "Article XXIV. All the inhabitants of the Republic of Cuba are absolutely free. "Article XXV. All the citizens are considered as soldiers of the Liberating Army. "Article XXVI. The Republic shall not bestow dignities, titles, nor special privileges. "Article XXVII. The citizens of the Republic shall not accept honors nor titles from foreign countries. "Article XXVIII. The House of Representatives shall not abridge the Freedom of Religion, nor of the Press, nor of Public Meetings, nor of Education, nor of Petition, nor any inalienable Right of the People. "Article XXIX. The Constitution can be amended only by the unanimous concurrence of the House of Representatives." [Illustration: MANUEL QUESADA] The next day the Convention proceeded to the election of officers of the House of Representatives. Salvador Cisneros was elected President; Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz and Antonio Zambrana were elected Secretaries, and Miguel Betancourt and Eduardo Machado, Vice-Secretaries. MANUEL QUESADA Manuel Quesada, for a time military head of the Ten Years' War, was born in Camaguey in 1830. He was banished for political reasons and went to Mexico, where he fought under Benito Juarez. In 1868 he joined the patriot army and became one of its leaders; in 1870 being its commander in chief. Failing to carry the war into Pinar del Rio, he went on a trip to Venezuela, and trying to return was pursued by a Spanish cruiser and took refuge in Santo Domingo. On his final return to Cuba he was deposed from his command for being too ambitious and autocratic, whereupon he went to the United States and thence to Venezuela, where he died in 1886. The seventh article of the Constitution was immediately put into practice, when the convention, constituting itself a House of Representatives, confirmed the confidence of the Cuban peoples in Cespedes, by appointing him President of the Republic of Cuba, while Manuel Quesada was made Commander-in-Chief of the Army. President Cespedes immediately assumed his office and issued this proclamation: "To the People of Cuba: