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ARTICLE III.

The Siamese Government may stop the importation by citizens of the United States into Siam of any spirits which, on examination, shall be proved to be deleterious to the public health; and they may give notice to the importers, consignees, or holders thereof to export the same within three months from the date of such notice, and if this is not done the Siamese Government may seize the said spirits and may destroy them, provided always that in all such cases the Siamese Government shall be bound to refund any duty which may have been already paid thereon.

The testing of spirits imported by citizens of the United States, and which may be alleged to be deleterious, shall be carried out in the manner provided by Article II.

The Siamese Government engage to take all necessary measures to prohibit and prevent the sale of spirits manufactured in Siam which may be deleterious to the public health.

ARTICLE IV.

Any citizen of the United States who desires to retail spirituous liquors, beer, or wines in Siam, must take out a special license for that purpose from the Siamese Government, which shall be granted upon just and reasonable conditions to be agreed upon from time to time between the two Governments.

ARTICLE V.

Citizens of the United States shall at all times enjoy the same rights and privileges in regard to the importation and sale of spirits, beer, wines, and spirituous liquors in Siam as the subjects of the most favored nation; and spirits, beer, wines, and spirituous liquors coming from the United States shall enjoy the same privileges in all respects as similar articles coming from any other country the most favored in this respect.

It is therefore clearly understood that citizens of the United States are not bound to conform to the provisions of the present agreement to any greater extent than the subjects of other nations are so bound.

ARTICLE VI.

Subject to the provisions of Article V, the present Agreement shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by mutual consent between the two Governments, and shall remain in force until the expiration of six months' notice given by either party to determine the same.

The existing treaty engagements between the United States and Siam shall continue in full force until the present Agreement comes into operation and after that date, except in so far as they are modified hereby.

Should the present Agreement be terminated, the Treaty engagements between the United States and Siam shall revive, and remain as they existed previously to the signature hereof.

ARTICLE VII.

In this agreement the words "citizen of the United States" shall include any naturalized citizen of the United States, and the words "Consul General of the United States" shall include any consular officer of the United States in Siam.

The present agreement shall be ratified, and its ratification shall be exchanged as soon as possible.

In witness whereof, the Undersigned have signed the same in duplicate, and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Washington, the fourteenth day of May 1884, corresponding to the fifth day of the waning moon of the month of Visagamas of the year Wauk Sixth Decade 1246 of the Siamese Astronomical Era.

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SPAIN.

The treaties with Spain were annulled by the war of 1898.

1795.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, BOUNDARIES, COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. Concluded October 27, 1795; ratification advised by the Senate March 3, 1796; ratified by the President; ratifications exchanged April 25, 1796; proclaimed August 2, 1796. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1006.)

This treaty consisted of twenty-three articles. It contained an agreement as to the southern and western boundaries of the United States; the mutual free navigation of the Mississippi River from its source to the ocean; the usual articles relating to commerce and navigation; the authority to appoint consuls; the appointment of a claims commission to settle claims of United States citizens against Spain, etc. The claims commission provided for met in Philadelphia, terminating their duties December 31, 1799, having made awards to the amount of $325,440.074 on account of Spanish spoliations.

Federal cases: The Nereide, 9 Cranch, 388; The Pizarro, 2 Wheat., 227; The Neustra Señora de la Caridad, 4 Wheat., 497; The Amiable Isabella, 6 Wheat., 1; The Bello Corrunes, 6 Wheat.. 152; The Santissima Trinidad, 7 Wheat., 283; Henderson v. Poindexter's Lessee, 12 Wheat., 530; U. S. v. The Amistad, 15 Pet., 518; Pollard v. Hagan, 3 How., 212; Robinson v. Minor, 10 How., 627; Le Tigre, 3 Wash. C. C., 567; The Santissima Trinidad, 1 Brock., 478.

1802.

CLAIMS CONVENTION.

Concluded August 11, 1802; ratification advised by the Senate January 9, 1804; ratified by the President January 9, 1804; ratifications exchanged December 21, 1818; proclaimed December 22, 1818. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1015.)

This convention provided for the appointment of a board of five commissioners to adjust the claims for "indemnification of those who have sustained losses, damages, or injuries in consequence of the excesses of individuals of either nation during the late war contrary to the existing treaty or the laws of nations." As the convention was not proclaimed until the 22d of December, 1818, and was annulled by Article X of the Treaty of 1819, it never went into effect.

1819.

TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, CESSION OF THE FLORIDAS, AND

BOUNDARIES.

Concluded February 22, 1819; ratification advised by the Senate February 24, 1819; ratification advised again by the Senate February 19, 1821; ratified by the President February 22, 1821; ratifications exchanged February 22, 1821; proclaimed February 22, 1821. (Treaties and Conventions, 1889, p. 1016.)

By this treaty of sixteen articles Spain ceded East and West Florida to the United States; the western boundary was agreed to in Article III, which is reprinted; mutual claims against both governments were renounced, the United States assuming the payment of the Spanish claims arising out of the operations of the American army in Florida; a commission was provided to adjust the claims against Spain for the satisfaction of which the United States agreed to pay an amount not exceeding $5,000,000, etc. The claims commission under the treaty, which was authorized by the act of March 3, 1821 (U. S. Stats., Vol. 3, p. 639), met in Washington, June 9, 1824. The awards amounted to $5,454,545.13, which, in accordance with the treaty provisions, was scaled down to $5,000,000.

ART. 3.

The Boundary Line between the two Countries, West of the Mississippi, shall begin on the Gulph of Mexico, at the mouth of the River Sabine, in the Sea, continuing North, along the Western Bank of that River, to the 324 degree of Latitude; thence, by a Line due North, to the degree of Latitude, where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Natchitoches, or Red-River, then following the course to the Rio-Roxo Westward, to the degree of Longitude, 100 West from London and 23 from Washington, then, crossing the Said Red-River, and running thence by a Line due North to the River Arkansas, thence, following the Course of the Southern bank of the Arkansas to its source in Latitude, 42. North, and thence by that parallel of Latitude to the South-Sea. The whole being as laid down in Melish's Map of the United-States, published at Philadelphia, improved to the first of January 1818.

Source of the Arkansas River shall be found to fall North or South of Latitude 42, then the Line shall run from the said Source due South or North, as the case may be, till it meets the said Parallel of Latitude 42, and thence along the said Parallel to the South Sea: all the Islands in the Sabine and the said Red and Arkansas Rivers, throughout the course thus described, to belong to the United-States; but the.

Federal cases: Comegys v. Vasse, 1 Pet., 193, 4 Wash. C. C., 570; American Ins. Co. v. Canter, 1 Pet., 511; Foster v. Neilson, 2 Pet., 253; U. S. v. Arredondo, 6 Pet., 691; U. S. v. Percheman, 7 Pet., 51; U. S. v. Clarke, 8 Pet., 436, 9 Pet., 168, 16 Pet., 228; Mitchel v. U. S., 9 Pet., 711; U. S. v. Sibbald, 10 Pet., 313; Smith v. U. S., 10 Pet., 326; U. S. v. Mill's Heirs, 12 Pet., 215; U. S. v. Kingsley, 12 Pet., 476; Garcia v. Lee, 12 Pet., 511; U. S. v. Wiggins, 14 Pet., 334; Pollard v. Kibbe, 14 Pet., 353; O'Hara v. U. S., 15 Pet., 275; U. S. v. Delespine, 15 Pet., 319; U. S. v. The Amistad, 15 Pet., 518; U. S. v. Breward, 16 Pet., 143; U. S. v. Miranda, 16 Pet., 153; U. S. v. Hanson, 16 Pet., 196; U. S. v. Acosta, 1 How., 24; Pollard v. Files, 2 How., 591; Pollard v. Hagan, 3 How., 212; Clark v. Braden, 16 How., 635; Meade v. U. S., 9 Wall., 691, 2 Ct. Cl., 224; U. S. v. Lynde's Heirs, 11 Wall., 632; U. S. v. Texas, 162 U. S., 1; Gray v. U. S., 21 Ct. Cl., 340.

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ARTICLE I.

Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will, so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the obligations that may under international law result from the fact of its occupation, for the protection of life and property.

ARTICLE II.

Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.

ARTICLE III.

Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands, and comprehending the islands lying within the following lines:

A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north latitude, and through the middle of the navigable channel of Bachi, from the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) to the one hundred and twenty seventh (127th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich, thence along the one hundred and twenty seventh (127th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich to the parallel of four degrees and forty five minutes (4° 45') north latitude, thence along the parallel of four degrees and forty five minutes (1° 45') north latitude to its intersection with the meridian of longitude one hundred and nineteen degrees and thirty five minutes (119° 35') east of Greenwich, thence along the meridian of longitude one hundred and nineteen degrees and thirty five minutes (119° 35') east of Greenwich to the parallel of latitude seven degrees and forty minutes (7° 40') north, thence along the parallel of latitude of seven degrees and forty minutes (7° 40') north to its intersersection with the one hundred and sixteenth (116th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich, thence by a direct line to the intersection of the tenth (10th) degree parallel of north latitude with the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich, and thence along the one hundred and eighteenth (118th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich to the point of beginning.

The United States will pay to Spain the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.

ARTICLE IV.

The United States will, for the term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States.

ARTICLE V.

The United States will, upon the signature of the present treaty, send back to Spain, at its own cost, the Spanish soldiers taken as prisoners of war on the capture of Manila by the American forees, The arms of the soldiers in question shall be restored to tl

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