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Cuban Independence Proclaimed at the Outbreak of the Ten Years' War--Provisional Government Organized--Carlos Manuel Cespedes--Proclamation of Emancipation--Representative Government Formed--Cespedes's Address--The First Cuban Constitution--The House of Representatives--Presidential Proclamation--Proclamation of General Quesada--Proclamation of Count Valmaseda--Request for Recognition--The "Juntas of the Laborers"--Cuban Government and Laws--Organization of the Cuban Army.