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Note: T I M E L I N E 1897 -- Listed as a first Lieutenant in the Batallion of Volunteers, #12, of Hato Grande. The "Instituto de Voluntarios de Puerto Rico" was a military organization roughly equivalent to the National Guard in the United States. As "week-end warriors" their mission was to train and be ready to assist the regular Spanish Army in the event of a war. In addition to being part-time soldiers, every Voluntario was also a member of a political party known as "Incondicionalmente Español"; meaning unconditionally Spanish. In essence they were an armed political party. Originally, membership was limited to Spanish born immigrants but later this requirement was expanded to include native-born Puerto Ricans -- " Criollos". Jose Sergio's connection to this military unit occurred at the start of the Spanish-American War and would indicate that he was called up to participate when the Americans invaded the island on 25 Jul 1898.
When the war with the U.S. started, the Governor General of Puerto Rico ordered them back into service. However, it was further decreed that they would not be allowed to fight in their own distinct units and were to be inducted as individual soldiers and integrated into the regular Spanish Army. This order did not sit well with them and with exceptions, the majority of the 8,000 part-time soldiers did not respond to the Spanish call to arms, when the American forces invaded the island on July 25, 1898. (Interestingly, during the Spanish-American War, New York's 7th. Volunteer Regiment also refused to participate under the command of regular army officers and stayed at home). The Instituto de Voluntarios was organized in 1812 and disbanded at the close of the Spanish American War in 1898. SOURCE: Puerto Rican Hispanic Genealogy Society, Miguel J. Hernandez y Torres, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~prhgs/voluntarios.htm#anchor98073
1897 Sep 25 -- Jose Sergio Mangual y Falero on a list of electors for members of courts, belonging to Hato Grande, address in the Quebrada Pueblo of Hato Grande, a.k.a. San Lorenzo. Employer Municipal Depository. SOURCE: Library of Congress, Chronicling America, Gazeta de Puerto-Rico, Sept 25, 1897, pg 5
1897 Oct 07 -- Manifesto -- Jose Sergio Mangual is one of the signers of a Manifesto denouncing the Autonimistic Movement in Puerto Rico seeking an independent government under the Spanish Colonial System. SOURCE: Manifestaciones del Elemento Espanol de Puerto Rico . . ., #40, www.books.google.com _________________________________________________________________
1900 -- Listed in a Directory of the Military Government of Puerto Rico dated 30 April 1900 as Councilman for the Municipality of Hato-Grande, a.k.a San Lorenzo SOURCE: Directory of the Military Government of Puerto Rico, Headquarters San Juan, April 30, 1900, published by the Direction of the Commanding General, Dept. of Puerto Rico, Pg 40
1903 Nov. -- Deputy Collector for the Internal Revenue for the District of Caguas SOURCE: Register of Porto Rico, 1903, by Hon. Charles Hartzel, Secretary of Porto Rico, Oct 1903, www.books.google.com
1912 June 11 -- MANGUAL V. REGISTRAR OF PROPERTY Jose Sergio Mangual Falero and others presented for record to the Registrar of Property of Caguas a deed of partition of the Estate of Maria Concepcion Falero and her husband, Juan de la Cruz Mangual, which the registrar refused to record by a note entered at the foot of the document and of which the parties in interest were notified on May 4 last.
After the 24th of said month, the parties to the document filed in the office of the Secretary of this Supreme Court a writing for an administrative appeal from the decision denying the recording of the document.
In accordance with section 3 of the Act of March 1, 1902, which is section 801 of the Revised Statues of Porto Rico, an administrative appeal from the decision of a registrar refusing to record a document must be taken with 20 days from the notice thereof.
In accordance with section 388 of the Political Code the time is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded. Therefore, in accordance with this section the period of 20 days provided by law for taking this appeal began to run from the day following the notice of the decision -- that is, from May 5 -- even though it was a holiday, and expired on Friday, the 24th of the same month. (Munoz v. Lopez, 14 P. R. R., 453
Therefore, the appeal in the case not having been taken within the 20 days provided by law we cannot consider it, and in accordance with our decision in the case of Finaly v. Registrar of Property, 16 P. R. R. 17, and cases therein cited, the appeal should be dismissed.
This opinion of the court was delivered by Mr. Justice Aldrey. Chief Justice Hernandez and Justices MacLeary, Wolf, and del Toro concurred. Case Dismissed.
SOURCE: Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, Vol 18, Jan 8 - Dec 21, 1912, Pg 483, by J. Hernandez Usera, Secretary-Reporter, 1913.
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