In a meeting in Naik, Cavite sometime in April 1897, Bonifacio and his men drew this document in which they resolved to establish a government independent of and separate from that established at Tejeros. Among the forty-one men who signed it were Andres Bonifacio, Artemio Ricarte, Pio del Pilar and Severino de las Alas.

We who sign these presents with our true names, all officers of the army who have met in convention headed by the Supreme Chief [Bonifacio], on account of the critical situation of the pueblos and the war, having discovered the treason committed by certain officers who have been sowing discord and conniving with the Spaniards, our enemies, corrupting the army and being guilty of criminal neglect in the care of the wounded, have agreed to deliver the people from this grave danger by the means hereinafter enumerated:

First: All combatants shall, by persuasion of force, be incorporated in an army corps and placed under the command of General Pio del Pilar.

Second: We shall recognize no one as being vested with full power except Right in the first place, and those courageous officers who, since the beginning of the war and until the present moment, have never gone back on their oath and have conducted themselves loyally.

Third: Any disloyal person shall be punished on the spot, according to his desserts.

Such is our agreement, and we swear before God and the country of our birth that we shall keep it unto the grave.