The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-12-21
THE PEACE TREATY.
The Terms Agreed Upon Between
the United States and Spain.
INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
Spain Loses Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Philippines and a Half Dozen
Other Islands in the
East.

East.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
gives the following as the text of the
Hispano-American treaty, omltting
diplomatic circumlocutions:
Spain relirquishes all claims OF SOW
ereignty over and title to Cuba; and, as
the island is, upon it's evacution by
Spain, to be occupied by the United
States, the latter will, SO long as such
occupation shall last, assume and dis
charge the obligations in respect to pro-
lection of life and property which may,
under international law, result from its
occupation.
Spain cedes to the United States
the island Of Porto Rico and the other
islands now under Spanish sovereignty
in the West Indies, with Guam, in the
Mariana or Ladrone islands. Spain
cedes to the United States the archipe-
lego known as the Philippine Islands
The United States, for term OF
ten years from the date and exchange
of rati6cations of the present treaty,
admit Spanish ps aad merchandise
to ports in the Philippine Islands on the
same terms as the ships and merchan-
disc of the United States.
''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 forces. The arms Of the
soldiers in question shall be restored to
them. Spaiu will, upon the signature
of the present treaty, release all pris-
oners OF war and all persons detained
or imprisoned for political offences in
connection with the Insurreetion IN
Cuba and the Philippines and the war
with the United States.
''On their part, the United States
will release all persons made prisoners
of war by the American forces, and will
undertake to obtain the release os all
Spanish prisoners in the hands Of the
insurgents in Cuba and the Philippines.
''The United States will, at their
own cost, return to Spain, and the gov
ernment Of Spain will, at its o IN cost, re-
turn the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico
or the Philippines, according to the sit
uation of their respective homes, the
prisoners released, or caused to be re-
leased by them respectively. under this
provision.
''The United States and Spain mu-
tually relinquish all claim for indemni-
ty, national and individual, Of every
kind, Of either government or Of its citi'
zens or subjects. against the other gov
ernment that may have arisen since the
beginning of the late insurrection in
Cuba and prior to exchange of the rati-
fcations Of the present treaty, includ-
ing all claims for indemnity for the cost
Of the war. The United States will
adjudicate and settle the claims of its
citizens against Spain relinquished un-
der this stipulation.
Spanish subjects, natives Of the pc
ninsula, residing in the territory over
which Spain by the present treaty re-
linquishes or cedes her sovereignty,
may remain in such territory, or may
remove therefrom, retaining in either
event all their rights Of property, in
cluding the right to sell or dispose Of
such property or its proceeds, and they
shall also have the right to carry on
their industry, commerce and profes-
sion, being subject in respect thereof
to such laws as are applicable to other
foreigners. In the event Of their re-
naming in the territory they may pre-
serve their allegiance to the Crown OF
Spain by making, before Court OF
of Record, within year from the date
of the exchange of ratifcations Of the
treaty, declaration of their decision
to preserve such allegiance, in default
of which declaration they shall be held
to have renounced it and to have adopt
ed the nationality Of the territory in
which they may reside.
The civil rights and political status
Of the native inhabitants OF the terri
tory hereby ceded to the United States
shall be determined by congress. The
inhabitants Of the territory over which
Spain relinquishes or cedes her sover-
eighty shall be secured in the free ex-
srcis, Of their religion.
'.Spaniards residing in the territories
over which Spain, by this treaty, cedes
or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be
subject in matters civil, as we'll as
criminal, to the Jurisdiction Of the
courts of the country in which they re-
side, pursuant to the ordinary laws gov-
erning the same, and they shall have
the right to appear before such court,
and to pursue the same course as cltl-
zens Of the country to which the courts
belong.
'The right of property, secured by
copyrights and patents acquired by the
Spaniards in the island of Cuba and in
Porto Rico and the Philippines and the
other ceded territories at the time Of
the exchange Of the rati6cations of the
treaty, shall continue and be respected.
Spanish scientific, literary and artistic
works, not subversive of public order
in the territories i'll question, shall con-
tinue to be admitted free of duty into
such territories for a period of ten
years, to be reckoned from the date Of
ratification Of the treaty.
''Spain shall have the right to estab-
lish consular Offices in the ports and
other places of the territories sovereign
ty over which has been either relin-
quished or ceded by the present treaty.
The government of each country will,
for a term of ten years from the ex-