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(The Filipino negotiators, seated from left to right: Pedro Paterno and Emilio Aguinaldo with five companions)
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The following are the conditions according to General Aguinaldo through his book, <a href="https://kahimyang.com/pdf/True-Version-of-the-Philippine-Revolution" class="news_link">True version of the Philippine revolution</a> published on  September 23,  1899,
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<li>That I would, and any of my associates who desired to go with me, be free to live in any foreign country. Having fixed upon Hongkong as my place of residence, it was agreed that payment of the indemnity of $800,000 (Mexican) should be made in three instalments, namely, $400,000 when all the arms in Biak-na-bato were delivered to the Spanish authorities; $200,000 when the arms surrendered amounted to eight hundred stand; the final payment to be made when one thousand stand of arms shall have been handed over to the authorities and the Te Deum sung in the Cathedral in Manila as thanksgiving for the restoration of peace. The latter part of February was fixed as the limit of time wherein the surrender of arms should be completed.
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The whole of the money was to be paid to me personally, leaving the disposal of the money to my discretion and knowledge of the  understanding with my associates and other insurgents.
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Prior to evacuating Biak-na-bato the remainder of the insurgent forces under Captain-General Primo de Rivera should send to Biak-na-bato two General of the Spanish Army to be held as hostages by my associates who remained there until I and a few of my compatriots arrived in Hongkong and the first installment of the money payment (namely, four hundred thousand dollars) was paid to me.
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It was also agreed that the religious corporations in the Philippines be expelled and an autonomous system of government, political and administrative, be established, though by special request of General Primo de Rivera these conditions were not insisted on in the drawing up of the Treaty, the General contending that such concessions would subject the Spanish Government to severe criticism and even ridicule. 
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December 14, 1897: the Pact of Biak-na-Bato was signed