ARTICLE IX. Spanish subjects, natives of the Peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds; and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners. In case they remain in the territory they may preserve their allegiance to the Crown of Spain by making, before a court of record, within a year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty, a declaration of their decision to preserve such allegiance; in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have adopted the nationality of the territory in which they may reside. The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress. ARTICLE X. The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion. ARTICLE XI. The Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be subject in matters civil as well as criminal to the jurisdiction of the courts of the country wherein they reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws governing the same; and they shall have the right to appear before such courts, and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to which the courts belong. ARTICLE XII. Judicial proceedings pending at the time of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty in the territories over which Spain relin quishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be determined according to the following rules: 1. Judgments rendered either in civil suits between private individuals, or in criminal matters, before the date mentioned, and with respect to which there is no recourse or right of review under the Spanish law, shall be deemed to be final, and shall be executed in due form by competent authority in the territory within which such judgments should be carried out. 2. Civil suits between private individuals which may on the date mentioned be undetermined shall be prosecuted to judgment before the court in which they may then be pending or in the court that may be substituted therefor. 3. Criminal actions pending on the date mentioned before the Supreme Court of Spain against citizens of the territory which by this treaty ceases to be Spanish shall continue under its jurisdiction until final judgment; but, such judgment having been rendered, the execution thereof shall be committed to the competent authority of the place in which the case arose. ARTICLE XIII. The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island of Cuba, and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to be respected. Spanish scientific, literary and artistic works, not subversive of public order in the territories in question, shall continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories, for the period of ten years, to be reckoned from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty. ARTICLE XIV. Spain shall have the power to establish consular officers in the ports and places of the territories, the sovereignty over which has been either relinquished or ceded by the present treaty. ARTICLE XV. The Government of each country will, for the term of ten years, accord to the merchant vessels of the other country the same treatment in respect of all port charges, including entrance and clearance dues, light dues, and tonnage duties, as it accords to its own merchant vessels, not engaged in the coastwise trade. This article may at any time be terminated on six months' notice given by either Government to the other. ARTICLE XVI. It is understood that any obligations assumed in this treaty by the United States with respect to Cuba are limited to the time of its occupancy thereof; but it will upon the termination of such occupancy, advise any Government established in the island to assume the same obligations. ARTICLE XVII. The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible. In faith whereof, we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done in duplicate1 at Paris, the tenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. 1 In Spanish and English, the representatives of Spain signing the Spanish text, Index [TITLES IN ITALICS INDICATE A TEXT WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES Abandoned property, act for collection of, | Abolition of peonage, 168-169; of slavery Arkansas, act admitting, to representa- Army, command of, 166–168; use of, at Arnold, Isaac N., 42. Arthur, Chester A., 319, 332, 342, 389. Admission of West Virginia, act for, 56- Article of war, act for an additional, 31, 32. Alabama, act admitting, to representation Articles of impeachment, 184-198. in Congress, 201-203. Alabama claims, 268 ff. Ashley, James M., 155, 184, 198. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., 23. Alaska, treaty with Russia for cession of, Babcock, Orville E., 247. 174-179. Allison, William B., 314. Allotment of lands in severalty to Indi- Bank note act, 235-238. ans, 372-377. Alvey, R. H., 414. Amendment to the Constitution, thir- American citizens in foreign states, rights Amnesty, proclamation of, 1863, 85-88; Anti-Lottery act, 1890, 402-405. 414. Bank notes, State, taxation of, 68, note I. 249. Blaine, James G., 156, 317. Bland, Richard P., 313, 314, 411, 412. 437 Butler, Benjamin F., 217, 246, 290, 303. Caldwell, John A., 402. Call for 75,000 volunteers, 1, 2. Cameron, Simon, 22. Catron, Thomas B., 419. Churchill, John C., 249. Citizens, rights of American, in foreign Civil rights act, first, 141-146; second, Civil service act, 332-339. See War; Insurrection. Civil War. Clark, Daniel, 152. Clarke, Sidney, 185. Correspondence with rebels, act to punish, Coudert, F. R., 414. Credit, act to strengthen the public, 215, 216. "Crime of 1873," 294. Cuba, recognition of independence of, 422- Paris. Cullom, Shelby M., 352. Davis, Cushman K., 423. Davis, Henry Winter, 122. Davis, Noah, 238. Dawes, Henry L., 47, 204, 372. Debt, national, act for refunding, 242– Cleveland, Grover, 318, 380, 426; Vene- Declaration of war against Spain, 424, Dingley, Nelson, 423. Coin, act authorizing further purchase of, Delano, Columbus, 169. Collection of duties, act for, 4-9; of di- Colonization of negroes, 52. Confiscation act of 1861, 20-22; of 1862, Conger, E. H., 398. Conkling, Roscoe, 34. Direct taxes in insurrectionary states, act Disabilities, political, act removing, 290. Draft, act to authorize, 68-74. See En- Duties, act for collection of, 4-9. Edmunds, George F., 160, 205, 221, 317, Eight hour law, 203, 204. Conspiracies, act to define and punish cer- Election of representatives by districts, tain, 17, 18. Constitution. See Amendments; Elec- Contract labor act, 330-342; contract la- Coolie trade, act prohibiting, 24-27. 47, 48; of senators, 152, 153; presiden- |