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to the end that the same and every clause and article loereof pay De observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
 In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
 Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth /, day of July, in the year of our Lord one IL. s.) thousand eight hundred and fifty four and
 of the lndendence of the United States the
 seventy ninth.
 FRANKLIN PIERCE
 BY THE PRESIDENT:
 w. L. MARCY, Secretary 0f .State.
 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED . STATES OF AMERICA
 A PROCLAMATION.
 WHEREAS Convention between the United States of America and Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen ot Portugal and of the Algarves was concluded and signed by their Penipoentiaries in this city, on the 26th day of February, in the year of Lord 1851 which Convention being in the English and Portu- guese languages, is word for word as follows:
 The United States of America and Her Most Faith ful Majesty, the Queen of Portugal and of the AL garves equally animated with the desire to maintain the relations of harmony and amity which has al- ways existed and which it is desirable to preserve be- tween the two Powers, having agreed to terminate by Convention, the pending questions between their respective Governments, in relation to certain pecu mary claims of American citizens presented by the Government ot the United States against the Govern mentof Portugal, have appointed as their Penipo- tentlaries for that purpose. to witt
 The President of the United States of America, Daniel Webster, Secretary of State of said United States, and
 Her Most Faithful Majesty, J. c. de Figaniere Morao, of Her Council, Knight Commander of the Orders of Christ and of O. L. of Conception of Villa llcoza, and Minister Resident of Portugal near the Government of the United St ,tes-
 W ho, after having exchanged their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:
 ARTICLE l. Her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal and of the Agarves, appreciating the dllhcnty of two Governments agreeing upon the sub Ject Of s;. claims, from the difference of opinion en- ertained by them respectively which difficulty might hazard the continuance of the good understanding now prevailing between them, and resolved to main tam the same unmpaired has assented to pay to the Government of the United States a sum equivalent to the indemnites claimed for several American cit zens with the exception of that mentioned ill the fourth artice and which sum the Government of the united States undertakes to receive in full satisfaction of shd claims, except aforesaid, and to distribute the same among the claimants.
 ARTICLE 7. The high contracting parties. not be- Ing able to come to an agreement upon the question of public law involved in the of the American privateer brig General Armstrong; destroyed bv British vessels in the waters of the Island of Fava in September 1914. Her Most Faithful Majesty has pro posed, and the United States of America have con sented that the claim presented by the American Co., vernnent. in behalf of the captain officers and crew of the said prvateer should be submitted to the arbi trament Of sovereign, potentae, or chief of some naonin amity with both the high contracting parties ARTICLE 3. So the coIisent of the sovereign poentate or chief of some friendly nation who shall be chosen by the two high contracting parties shall have been obtained to act arbiter in the aforesaid case of the ,privateer brig General Armstrong;" copies all ot correspondence which has passed in re- ference to said claim between the two Governments and their respective representatives shall De laid before the arblter, to whose decision the two high contract lng parties hereby bind themselves to submit. ARTICLE 4. The pecuniary ndemnities which Her Most fathfui Majesty promises to pay, to be tha n1 ,.,l day of July, 1850. ill behalf of American citizens hv the Government of the United States with the ex- ccption of that of the {" General Armstrongn) arc fixed at nineone thousand seven hundred and twen- | ty seven dollars, in accordance with the corrcspond ence between the two Governments
 ARTICLE D. The payment of the sum stipulated | in the preceding article shall be made in Lisbon in ten equal insallments, in the course of five years to the properly authorized agent of the United States. The first installment of nine thousand hundred and scVenty-two dollars seventy cents with interest as hereinafter provided Cor its equivalent in Portuguese current money,) shall be paid, aforesaid on the 3Oth day of September Of the current year 1S51 or earlier at the option of the Portuguese Government; and at the end of every subsequent six months like insallment shall be pad the integral sum of ninety one thousand seven hundred and twenty-s seven dol lars or its equivalent thus to be satisfied before the 3Oth day of September, 1856.
 ARTICLE 6. It hereby agreed that each and all of the said installmens are to bear and to be paid with m interest of six per cent per annum from the date of the exchange ot the notifications of the pre- sent Convention.
 ARTICLE '. This Convention shall be appoved and ratihed and the notifications shall be exchanged ill the city of Lisbon within four months after the date hereof, or sooner if possible.
 1ntestimony whereof, the respective Plenpotentia- res have signed the sane and affixed thereto the seals of their arms
 Done in the city of Washington, D. C., the 26th day of February, of the year of our Lord 1851.
 DANIEL WEBSTER, L. s1
 J. c. DE FIGANIERE MORAO h. s1 | And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective notifications of the exchanged at Lisbon on the 23d day of June, in the year of our Lord 1851. by CHARLES B. PADDOCK, Charge d'Afaires of the United States near the Government of Her Faithful Majesty and | ANTONIO ALUIzIo JERvIs D'AToUGUIA Minister of | State for Foreign Affairs of her said Majesty on the part of their respective Governments:
 Now. therefore, be it known that I, WILLARD | FILLMORE, President of the United States of Ame- rca have caused the said Convention to be made pub ic to the end that the same, and every clause and astcle thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
 Done at the city of Washington this 1st day
 of September in the year of our Lord one L. s.] thousand eight hundred and fifty -one and
 in the seventy sixth year of the Independence
 of the United States.
 WILLARD FILLMORE. BY THE PRESIDENT:
 VIM. s. DERRICK, Actasy Secretarv of State. |
 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED