<P> The Declaration is currently housed in the National Library of the Philippines . It is not on public display but can be viewed with permission like any other document held by the National Library . </P> <P> During the Philippine--American War, the American government captured and sent to the United States about 400,000 historical documents . In 1958, the documents were given to the Philippine government along with two sets of microfilm of the entire collection, with the U.S. Federal Government keeping one set . </P> <P> Sometime in the 1980s or 1990s the Declaration was stolen from the National Library . As part of a larger investigation into the widespread theft of historical documents and a subsequent public appeal for the return of stolen documents, the Declaration was returned to the National Library in 1994 by historian and University of the Philippines professor Milagros Guerrero, who mediated the return of the documents . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Philippine Declaration of Independence </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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