Satisfaction by the United States for injuries to inhabitants of Florida.

if any, which, by process of law, shall be established to have been suffered by the Spanish officers, and individual Spanish inhabitants, by the late operations of the American

Army in Florida.

ARTICLE X.

The convention entered into between the two Governments, on the 11th of August, 1802, the ratifications of which were ex11, 1802, annulled. changed the 21st December, 1818, is annulled.

Convention of Aug.

United States to

their citizens to the

to decide upon claims.

ARTICLE XI.

The United States, exonerating Spain from all demands in future, on account of the claims of their citizens to which the renuncisatisfy claims of ations herein contained extend, and considering them entirely amount of $5,000,000. cancelled, undertake to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars. To ascertain the full Three Commission amount and validity of those claims, a commission, to cou⚫rs to be appointed sist of three Commissioners, citizens of the United States, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, which commission shall meet at the city of Washington, and, within the space of three years from the time of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of all the claims included within the descriptions above mentioned. The said Commissioners shall take an oath or affirmation, to be entered on the record of their proceedings, for the faithful and diligent discharge of their duties; and, in case of the death, sickness, or necessary absence of any such Commissioner, his place may be supplied by the appointment, as aforesaid, or by the President of the United States, during the recess of the Senate, of another Commissioner in his stead. The said Commissioners shall be authorized to hear and examine, on oath, every question relative to the said claims, and to receive all suitable authentic testimony concerning the same. And the Spanish Government shall furnish all such documents and elucidations as may be in their possession, for the adjustment of the said claims, according to the principles of justice, the laws of nations, and the stipulations of the treaty between the two parties of 27th October, 1795; the said documents to be specified, when demanded, at the instance of the said Commissioners.

Payment of the claims.

The payment of such claims as may be admitted and adjusted by the said Commissioners, or the major part of them, to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars, shall be made by the United States, either immediately at their Treasury, or by the creation of stock, bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable from the proceeds of sales of public lands within the territories hereby ceded to the United States, or in such other manner as the Congress of the United States may prescribe by law.

Records of proceedings.

The records of the proceedings of the said Commissioners, together with the vouchers and documents produced before them, relative to the claims to be adjusted and decided upon by them, shall, after the close of their transactions, be deposited in the Department of State of the United States; and copies of ish Government. them, or any part of them, shall be furnished to the Spanish Government, if required, at the demand of the Spanish Minister in the United States.

Copies to the Span

ARTICLE XII.

The treaty of limits and navigation, of 1795, remains confirmed in all and each one of its articles excepting the 2, 3, 4, 21, Treaty of 1795 conand the second clause of the 22d article, which, having been firmned, with excep altered by this treaty, or having received their entire execution, are no longer valid.

tions.

erty, where.

With respect to the 15th article of the same treaty of friendship, limits, and navigation of 1795, in which it is stipulated Neutral flag to that the flag shall cover the property, the two high contract cover enemies' proping parties agree that this shall be so understood with respect to those Powers who recognize this principle; but if either of the two contracting parties shall be at war with a third party, and the other neutral, the flag of the neutral shall cover the property of enemies whose Government acknowledge this principle, and not of others.

ARTICLE XIII.

Sailors deserting.

Both contracting parties, wishing to favour their mutual commerce, by affording in their ports every necessary assistance to their respective merchant-vessels, have agreed that the sailors who shall desert from their vessels in the ports of the other, shall be arrested and delivered up, at the instance of the Consul, who shall prove, nevertheless, that the deserters belonged to the vessels that claimed them, exhibiting the document that is customary in their nation: that is to say, the American Consul in a Spanish port shall exhibit the document known by the name of articles, and the Spanish Consul in American ports the roll of the vessel; and if the name of the deserter or deserters who are claimed shall appear in the one or the other, they shall be arrested, held in custody, and delivered to the vessel to which they shall belong.

ARTICLE XIV.

United States cer

ceived no compensa

The United States hereby certify that they have not received any compensation from France for the injuries they suffered from her privateers, Consuls, and tribunals on the coasts tify that they reand in the ports of Spain, for the satisfaction of which pro- tion fro.n France for vision is made by this treaty; and they will present an authentic statement of the prizes made, and of their true value, that Spain may avail herself of the same in such manner as she may deem just and proper.

ARTICLE XV.

claims.

productions.

The United States, to give to His Catholic Majesty a proof of their desire to cement the relations of amity subsisting between Spanish vessels the two nations, and to favour the commerce of the subjects laden with Spanish of His Catholic Majesty, agree that Spanish vessels, coming laden only with productions of Spanish growth or manufactures, directly from the ports of Spain, or of her colonies, shall be admitted, for the term of twelve years, to the ports of Pensacola and St. Augustine, in the Floridas, without paying other or higher duties on their cargoes, or of tonnage, than will be paid by the vessels of the United States. During the said term no other nation shall enjoy the same privileges within the ceded territories. The twelve years shall commence three months after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty.

ARTICLE XVI.

The present treaty shall be ratified in due form, by the contracting parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months Ratifications. from this time, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof we, the underwritten Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of His Catholic Majesty, have signed, by virtue of our powers, the present treaty of amity, settlement, and limits, and have thereunto affixed our seals, respectively.

Done at Washington this twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. [L. S.]
LUIS DE ONIS.

[L. S.]

Ratification by His Catholic Majesty, on the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Ferdinand the Seventh, by the Grace of God and by the constitution October 24, 1820. of the Spanish monarchy, King of the Spains.

Ratification, by the

treaty of Feb. 22,

1819.

Whereas on the twenty-second day of February, of the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen last past, a treaty was King of Spain, of the Concluded and signed in the city of Washington, between Don Luis de Onis, my Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and John Quincy Adams, Esquire, Secretary of State of the United States of America, competently authorized by both parties, consisting of sixteen articles, which had for their object the arrangement of differences and of limits between both Governments and their respective territories, which are of the following form and literal tenor:

[Here follows the above treaty, word for word.]

Therefore, having seen and examined the sixteen articles aforesaid, and having first obtained the consent and authority of the General Cortes of the nation with respect to the cession mentioned and stipulated in the 2d and 3d articles, I approve and ratify all and every one of the articles referred to, and the clauses which are contained in them; and, in virtue of these presents, I approve and ratify them; promising, on the faith and word of a King, to execute and observe them, and to cause them to be executed and observed entirely as if I myself had signed them; and that the circumstance of having exceeded the term of six months, fixed for the exchange of the ratifications in the 16th article, may afford no obstacle in any manner, it is my deliberate will that the present ratification be as valid and firm, and produce the same effects, as if it had been done within the determined period. Desirous at the same time of avoiding any doubt or ambiguity concerning the meaning of the 8th article of the said treaty, in respect to the date which is pointed out in it as the period for the confirmation of the grants of lands in the Floridas, made by me, or by the competent authorities in my royal name, which point of date was fixed in the positive understanding of the three grants of land made in favor of the Duke of Alagon, the Count of Punourostro, and Don Pedro de Vargas, being annulled by its tenor,

*Trauslation.

I think proper to declare that the said three grants have remained and do remain entirely annulled and invalid; and that neither the three individuals mentioned, nor those who may have title or interest through them, can avail themselves of the said grants at any time, or in any manner; under which explicit declaration the said 8th article is to be understood as ratified. In the faith of all which I have commanded to despatch these presents. Signed by my hand, sealed with my secret seal, and countersigned by the underwritten my Secretary of Despatch of State.

Given at Madrid, the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

EVARISTO PEREZ DE CASTRO.

FERNANDO.

[Copies of the grants annulled by the foregoing treaty will be found in 8 Statutes at Large, page 267, et seq.]

SPAIN, 1834.

CONVENTION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER CATHOLICK MAJESTY. CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 17, 1834; RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT MADRID, AUGUST 14, 1834; PROCLAIMED NOVEMBER 1, 1834.

*The Government of the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen Regent, Governess of Spain during the minority of her august daughter, Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d, from a desire of adjusting by a definitive arrangement the claims preferred by each party against the other, and thus removing all grounds of disagreement, as also of strengthening the ties of friendship and good understanding which happily subsist between the two nations, have appointed for this purpose, as their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely:

The President of the United States, Cornelius P. Van Ness, a citizen of the said States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d; and Her Majesty the Queen Regent, in the name and behalf of Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d, His Excellency Don José de Heredia, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Ysabel the Catholick, one of Her Majesty's Supreme Council of Finance, ex-Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and President of the Royal Junta of Appeals of Credits against France;

Who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

Her Majesty the Queen Regent and Governess, in the name and in behalf of Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d, engages Agreement to into pay to the United States, as the balance on account of demnity United the claims aforesaid, the sum of twelve millions of rials vellon,

States.

in one or several inscriptions, as preferred by the Government of the United States, of perpetual rents, on the great book of the consolidated debt of Spain, bearing an interest of five per cent. per annum. Said inscription or inscriptions shall be issued in conformity with the model or form annexed to this convention, and shall be delivered in Madrid to such person or persons as may be authorized by the Government of the United States to receive them, within four months after the exchange of the ratifications. And said inscriptions, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed by the Government of the United States among the claimants entitled thereto, in such manner as it may deem just and equitable.

ARTICLE II.

The interest of the aforesaid inscription or inscriptions shall be paid Interest to be paid in Paris every six months, and the first half-yearly payment in Paris half-yearly. is to be made six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this convention.

Claims prior to

ARTICLE III.

The high contracting parties, in virtue of the stipulations contained in article first, reciprocally renounce, release, and cancel all date of convention. claims which either may have upon the other, of whatever class, denomination, or origin they may be, from the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, untill the time of signing this convention.

ARTICLE IV.

On the request of the Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Catholick Majesty at Washington, the Government of the United States List of claims. will deliver to him, in six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this convention, a note or list of the claims of American citizens against the Government of Spain, specifying their amounts respectively, and three years afterwards, or sooner if possible, authentic copies of all the documents upon which they may have been founded.

ARTICLE V.

This convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged, in Madrid, in six months from this time, or sooner

Ratifications. if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed these articles, and affixed thereto their seals.

Done in triplicate at Madrid, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

C. P. VAN NESS.

[L. S.] JOSÉ DE HEREDIA. [L. S.]