Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-21
SEPARATE ARTICLES.

ARTICLE l.
Whereas the arrangements forth in the treaty of
this date provided adequate substitute for the
protection heretofore extended by Great Britain to the
Mosquito Island and whereas SOME the other both
of the contracting parties may find in the condition of
their political relations with the Republic of Nicaragua
obstacles TO prevent immediate execution OF the SAID
arrangements Now therefore it is agreed and under
stood follows
First That any delay in carrying out the said
rangements arising from the circumstances relations
of the Republic of Nicaragua shall in respect impair
the validity force of the treaty between the
tracing parties but the shall remain obligatory
upon and be executed by them as early as may be
practicable.
Second That whichever of the two contracting parties
may find Itself in such political relations with the
Republic of Nicaragua to enable Sc to do shall first
propose sngly to that Republic the arrangements
tanned in this treaty, and shall obtain, by means Of
separate treaty its assent to those arrangements the
other contracting party engaging and reserving 10 itself
the right also to conclude with the said Republic the
earliest fitting moment, treaty containing the said ar
rangements.
ARTICLE II.
And whereas the relations of amty between the con-
tracing parties and the neutrality of any and every
communication by canal railway across the istnmus
which connects North and South America and TO which
communication by canal or railroad their protection has
been shall be extended, may be further assured by
definite arrangement two other questions which
have come into discussion
First. Now it is mutually agreed and understood that
her Britannia Maestys settlements called OF
British Honduras on the shores Of the Bay Of Honduras
bounded on the north by the Mexican proXhce of Yr
/ not 81 asfs the s ias a syer sg the 10
tracing parties the 10Th day of April 1850 and
the limits of the said Belize the west as they existed
the said 18th day of April 1885, shall be settled and
fixed by treaty between her Britannia Majesty and the
Republic of Guatemala within year from the ex-
change OF notifications of this instrument which said
boundaries and limits shall any time hereafter be
extended
Second That the islands and their inhabitants of Rua-
tan, Bonacea, Ufla Barbaretta, Helina and Morat
situate in the Bay of Honduras and known as the Bay
Islands, having been by convention bearing date
the - day #, 1856, between her Britannia Ma
esty and the Republic of Honduras constituted and de-
clared free territory under the sovereignty of the said
Republic of Honduras, the two contracting parties do
hereby mutually engage to recognise and respect in all
future time the independence and rights of the said free
territory part of the Republic of Honduras 1.-THE
phraseoogy of this article is modified that the two
Governments may recognise the sovereignty of the Bay
Islands in Honduras without being bound by the express
conditions of the treaty between Great Britain and Hon
duras This intended to avoid the delicate point in
that treaty for the future prohibition of slavery the
islands.
ARTICLE Ill
The present separate articles shall have the same force
and validity if they had been inserted word for word
in the treaty between her Britannia Majesty and the
United States of America signed this day.
They shall be ratified by her Britannia Majesty and
by the President of the United States by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate thereof and the ra
cations shall be exchanged the time as those Of
the treaty.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiares
have signed the present separate articles and have
affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done, &C.