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AYRES AND THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS CATHOLIC

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The Government of Buenos Ayres having recognised,
and caused to be recognised, in virtue of credentials
presented and legalised in competent form, Sencres Don
Antonio Luis Pereyra and Don Luis de la Robla, as
Commissioners from the Government of his Catholic
Majesty, and it beingproposed to the said Senores, by the
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the said State of Buenos
Ares, to agree to a Convention preliminary to the de-
finitive Treaty of Peace and Amity, which is to be con-
cluded between the Government of his Catholic Ma-
jesty and the Government of the United Provinces,
upon the bases established in the Law of the 19th June
of the present year; and they, after considering and re-
ciprocally discussing whatever they held to be calcu-
lated to conduce to the better adjustment of the rela-
tions of the said States, have, in the exercise of the cha-
racter with which they are invested, and of the powers
conferred on them, agreed to the said Preliminary Con-
vention in the terms expressed in the following Articles I
Article 1. After slily days, reckoning from the ratification of the
present Convention, by the Governments to which it applies, ali
hostilities, by sea and by land, shall cease between the said Govern-
ments and the Spanish nation.
2. In consequence, the G.neral of the forces of his Catholic Ma-
jesty at present in Peru, will continue in the positions which he
shall occupy at the time of the Convention being notified to him
saving the particular stipulations which, for reciprocal convenience,
the adjacent Governments may propose or accept, for the purpose
of improving their respective lines of occupation during the suspen-
sion of hostilities.
3. The relations of commerce, with the sole exception of articles
contraband of war, shall, during the period of the said suspension,
be fully re-establisbed between the provinces of the Spanish Mo-
narchy, those occupied by the armies of his Catholic Majesty in
Peru, and the States which ratify this Convention.
4. In consequence, the flags of the respective States shall he re-
ciprocally respected and admitted into each other's ports.
5. The relations of maritime commerce between the Spanish na-
tion and the States which may ratify this Convention, shall be re-
gulated by a special Convention, the framing of which shall be en-
tered upon in pursuance of the present Convention.

6. Neither the Authorities administering the provinces of Peru
in the name of his Catholic Majesty, nor the adjacent States, shall
impose on the trade of each other higher duties than those which
may exist at the period of the conclusion of the present Convention.
7. The suspension of hostilities shall subsist for 111 months.
S. Within the said period the Government of the State of nuenos
Ayres will negociate, through the medium of a Plenipotentiary of
the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, and conformably to
the law of the 19th of June, the conclusion of a definitive treaty of
peace and amity between his Catholic Majesty and the States of the
American Continent to which the said law refers.
9. In case of the renewal of hostilities, such renewal shall not
take place, nor shall the relations of commerce be interrupted, until
four months after the intimation of hostilities.

le. The law etisting in the Spanish Mon.,r,:hy, as well as in the
State of Buenos Ayres, respecting the inviolability of property, even
though it may be an enemy's property, shall have full force, in the
case of the operation of the preceding Article, within the territories
of the Governments which may ratify this Conv;:ation, and re-
ciprocally.
11. As soon as the Government of Buenos Ayres shall be autho-
rised by the House of Representatives to ratify this Convention, it
will negociate the accession thereto of the Governments of Chile,
Pero, and the other united provinces of the Rio de la Plata ; and
the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty will, at the same time,
take every means for giving to this accession, on the part of the
authorities of his Catholic Majesty, the most prompt and corn-
plete effect.
12. For the due effort and validity of this Convention, the items.

nary copies shall be signed and 'sealed on the part of the coati;
sioners of his Catholic Majesty with their seal, and on the pltit
the Government of Buenos Ayres by the seal of theDepattotent,
Foreign Affairs.
Buenos Ayres, July 4.
(Signed) ANTONIO LUIS PEREN
LUIS DE LA ROBtA,
Commissioners of his Catholic %it,
BERNARDIN RIVADAN4'
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
LAW PROJECT.—Stucts
The Government is authorized to ratify the pre
nary Convention concluded on the 4411 of the pr
month between the Government of the State of Dorm
Ayres and the Commissioners of his Catholic Mriezi
resident there; .and also to negociate the accesske theirs
of the States and Governments mentioned in article ii
the said Convention.