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- Article Four - In the short time that elapses until the transfer of powers, the National Defense Board will continue to assume what it currently exercises. (en)
- Article Two - He is also named Generalissimo of the national forces of land, sea, and air, and is conferred the position of General Head of Operations Armies. (en)
- Article Three - This proclamation will be solemnly covered, before adequate representation of all the national elements that make up this liberating movement, and from it the opportune communication will be made to foreign governments. (en)
- Since the Divine Providence led me to the Throne of this great Monarchy I have wished to promote, with all my strength, its prosperity. The Almighty wanted to favor my good intentions by arranging that, with the various events and vicissitudes of my reign, my experiences be increased, and my knowledge rectified: and this is the inheritance that it seemed to me to leave to my beloved vassals, reduced to perpetuate in them and in their government and constitution the progressive succession of the lights and maxims that I have acquired.
To this end I have resolved that, in addition to the Council of State, which will be convened when I, or my successors have it convenient, there is a Supreme Board, also of the State, similar to the one currently held by my verbal orders, composed of all the Secretaries of State and of the Universal Office: to which, in cases of gravity that occur, the other Ministers of the same Council of State appointed by me, or those of other Councils, or also the Generals, will concur; and educated and jealous people who believe they are useful or necessary.
This Board must be ordinary and perpetual, and must be convened once at least every week, being held in the [headquarters of the] First Secretary of State , even if this or another of the ministers does not attend, without any label or formalities of precedence between the concurrent, which only serve to prevent or delay my service and the good of the crown. (en)
- Article Five - Any provisions opposing this Decree are repealed and without effect. (en)
- Article One - In compliance with the agreement adopted by the National Defense Board, the Chief of the Government of the Spanish State is granted to the Most Excellent General of Division Mr. Francisco Franco Bahamonde, who will assume all the powers of the new State. (en)
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