In November 1895 the assembly of the Katipunan was composed of ten individuals of the Supreme Council, and the presidents of the popular sections who were entitled to assist in virtue of holding some office therein. In January of the following year of 1896, after the annual election, the assembly was composed as follows: President Andrés Bonifacio. Secretary Emilio Jacinto. / Vicente Molina. Treasurer + Pantaleón Torres. \ Hermenegildo Reyes. / Francisco Carreón. | José Trinidad. Councillors + Balbino Florentino. \ Aguedo del Rosario. Fiscal Pio Valenzuela. Note 77. The question of the amount and the source of the supply of arms possessed by the Katipunan has always been one of dispute. Some suppose the rebels to have been well armed, whilst others reckon the number of serviceable guns to have been very small. Among the papers and documents belonging to the Katipunan Sur, seized by the Spanish authorities, is the following: "Commissioned for the purchase of arms: D. Gabino \ D. Juan + Tantoko D. Antonio | D. Ezequiel / D. Epifanio Ramos. D. Victoriano Luis for the distinct armories of Manila." In a letter of the Secretary to the President D. Agustin Tantoko (a native priest; see page 79): "I believe we can obtain the dynamite by bribing some of the harbor employees." This letter has a foot-note which says: "When you have read this, destroy it." Numeriano Adriano testified (fols. 1,309-1,312) that Andrés Bonifacio had collected 10,000 pesos for the purchase, in Japan, of 4,000 rifles with abundant ammunition. He also stated that the arms had been purchased and were to be landed near by the mountains of San Mateo and in the Batanes islands, from whence they would be brought to Manila. That "Andrés Bonifacio went to San Mateo with men to receive and arrange arms, whilst Deodato Arellano and Timoteo Paez were encharged to send people to Batanes to the same end." Also that "It is said that many of the insurgents in the province of Cavite bear arms of different systems, and he supposed that they must have been acquired by the rich and wealthy persons of that province, such as Francisco Osario and others, who knowing perhaps of the existence of the Liga of Manila, its form and object, had formed their own also, in the said province, in order to unite to that of Manila and make common cause therewith."