Circular Sobre Los Personeros Provinciales y Municipales

Abstract

The image contains news about the Circular on provincial and municipal representatives, dated December 20, 1836, issued by the Secretariat of the Interior and Foreign Relations of the Republic of New Granada. Addressed to the Governor of a province, the circular addresses controversies that have arisen regarding the eligibility of citizens under twenty-five years of age to hold the position of provincial, municipal or communal representative. In response to judicial decisions that have annulled actions in which a person under that age intervened, the need to clarify this issue through a legislative law arises. The Vice President of the Republic ordered that this matter be submitted to Congress at its next meeting, provisionally suggesting that the appointments of representatives should fall on citizens who, in addition to meeting other legal requirements, are over twenty-five years of age. News published in El Constitucional de Cundinamarca. January 8, 1837.