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Notice to section presidents, November 26, 1895

 

                               Source: Archivo General Militar de Madrid: Caja 5677, leg.1.45.

 

Introduction

 

This document calls the presidents of all the KKK’s sections – popular councils (S.B.), branches (By.) and provincial units (Hkan.) – to a big meeting in the municipality of Caloocan on Saturday, November 30, 1895.   The meeting will be held in the house of “Liwayway”, and is scheduled to start at eight o’clock in the morning.

 

Penned by Emilio Jacinto (although he was then fiscal, not secretary, of the Supreme Council), the communication stresses the importance of the meeting, which will discuss almost every aspect of the Katipunan and will affect each and every section.  It is consequently anticipated that the meeting will last all day, and those attending are therefore asked make a donation – a salapi or half a peso – to pay for both their lunch and their supper. 

 

The document is signed by Bonifacio, Jacinto and several other leading members of the Katipunan, mostly using their KKK aliases and the KKK cipher.   Aguedo del Rosario, for example, whose alias was Tagaisok, signs the document “Tngnñsck ”.  The identities of the signatories, where known, are detailed beneath the transcription.  It is interesting to note that on this occasion Bonifacio uses a different cipher from the other signatories.  On later documents he customarily inscribed his alias – Maypagasa – as “Vzypzgzsz”, but here it is “Gnubnonzn” and it is prefaced by the letter “L.”, which presumably signifies his rank within the organisation.   The two next-highest ranking members of the Supreme Council, Emilio Jacinto and Jose Turiano Santiago, preface their signatures with the letter “B.”

 

 

 

 

 

K x K x K x

N x M x A x N x B x

Kataastasang Sx

 

                        Sa mga P. ng lahat ng mga S.B., By. at Hkan. at sa mga kap. na Tagaisok, Dimasayaran, Maniangat, Pingkian at iba pang nararapat dumalo.

                       

                           Minamahal na mga kap.:

                        Ipinagkakapuring ipagbigay alam sa inyo’y mga karangalan na sa Sabadong darating ikatatlong puong araw ng lumalakad na buan, ay gagawin ang isang malaking pagpupulong sa bayan ng Kalookan at sa bahay ng kap. na Liwayway at sa ikawalong palu ng tansu sa bakal ng umaga.

 

                        Sa bagay na ito at sa karapatang kayo’y magsidalo, sapagkat pinakakatawan ng kani-kaniyang pulutong ang bawat isa sa mga P., at sa mga katungkulan at tanging paglilingkod at katalinuhan ng mga iba, kayong lahat ay aming pinamamanhikan na mangyari lamang dumalo sa nasabing pagpupulong.

 

                        Datapua’t dito ay paguusapan ang lahat ng mga bagay halus na nauukol sa boong Kat. at sa bawat kaniyang pulutong, kaya’t walang salang magtatagal marahil ng maghapun at hangang gabi pa.  Sa dahilanan nito, ang aming minabuti na kayong lahat at sumambag ng isang salapi na ibibili ng pagkaing gagamitin sa tanghalian at hapunan.

 

                        Sa lahat ng ito, kami’y umaasang hindi wawaling kabuluhan ang aming kapamanhikan, at di mamasamain ang inakalang ambag, na mangyayaring ibigay karakarakang dumating ang kasulatang ito sa mga mahal ninyong kamay.

 

                        Kami’y aming niyayakap ng lubos na pagibig ng tunay na magkakapatid.

 

                        Maynila ikadalawangpu at anim ng Noviembre ng taung 1895.

                                                                        Ang K xP x

                                                                        L x. Gnubnonzn

 

Ang K x K x

B x Tnk-Tnk

 

B x Pñllgkñzll

[Illegible]

Snjnlljnllnll

Vngxñjñxñll

Pxtxktn [?]

Fnjnvmv

Vzllnzllgzt

Vnjzllc

Sñjnllg

[Illegible]

Bcrgcs

Gjngnll

Fnwns

Tzvbxjñ

Magiliw

Pio Valenzuela  Dimasayaran

Vntnpng

Paku

Laut - Jnct

Incg

Mapilit - Vzpñjñt

 

Tagaisok - Tngnñsck

 

 

 

 

Identities of signatories

 

 

The Supreme President

L.  Maypagasa

[Andres Bonifacio]

The Supreme Secretary

B. Tik-Tik

[Jose Turiano Santiago]

 

 

B. Pingkian

[Emilio Jacinto]

 

 Illegible

Silanganan

[Francisco Carreon]

 

Maguiluin

[Ignacio Sanchez]

Putakti [?]

[Identity unknown]

 

Halimaw

[Alejandro Santiago]

Maniangat

[Vicente Molina]

 

Milano

[Ponciano Herrera]

Silang

[Balbino Florentino]

 

Illegible

Burgos

[Geronimo Cristobal]

 

Ilagan

[Rafael Gutierrez]

Hiwis

[Identity unknown]

 

Tambuli

[Identity unknown]

Magiliw

[Rogelio Borja]

Dimasayaran

[Pio Valenzuela]

 

Matapang

[Juan Cruz]

 

Paku

[Estanislao de los Santos]

Laot

 [Isabelo Reyes]

 

Tiog [?]

[Identity unkown]

Mapilit

[Adriano Jesus]

 

 

Tagaisok

[Aguedo del Rosario]