The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-06
settle the claims of it's citizens against
Spain, relinquished in this article
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Spain, relinquished in this article.
anses ARTICLE VIII.
In conformity with the provisions of
articles I, II and III of this treaty,
Spain relinquishes in Cuba, and cedes
in Puerto Rico and other islands in the
West indies, in the island of Guam and
in the Philippine archipelago, all the
buildings, wharves, barracks, forts,
structures, public highways and other
lmmovable property which. in conform
ity with law, belong to the public do
main, and, as such, belong to the crown
of Spain.
And it is hereby declared that the re-
iinquishment or cession, as the case
may be, to which the preceding para
graph refers, cannot in any respect I'M
pair the property or rights which by
law belong to the peaceful possession
of property of all kinds, of provinces,
municipalities, public or private estao-
lishments, ecclesiastical or civic bodies,
or any other associations having legal
capacity to acquire and possess prop
erty in the aforesaid territories re-
nounced or coded, or of private individ-
uals, of whichever nationality such in
dividuals may be-
The aforesaid REIMBURSEMENT or cess
sion, as the case may be, includes ali
documents exclusively referring to the
sovereignty relinquished or ceded that
may exist in the archives of the PENN
sula. Where any documents in such
archives only in part relate to said
sovereignty, a copy of such part viii
be furnished whenever it shall be re-
quested. Like rules shall be recipro-
cally observed in favor of Spain in
respect to documents in the archives
of the islands above referred to.
In the aforesaid REIMBURSEMENT or
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included such rights as the crown of
Spain and its authorities possess in
respect of the official archives and rec
ordS, executive as well as judicial, in
the islands above referred to. which
relate to said islands or the rights and
property of their inhabitants. SUCH
archives and records shall be carefully
preserved and private persons shall,
without distinction, have the right to
request, in accordance with law, au-
thenticated copies of the contracts,
wills and other instruments forming
part of notarial protocols or files. or
which may be contained in the eXecu-
tive or judicial archives, be the latter
in Spain or in the islands aforesaid.
ARTICLE TX.
Spanish subjects, natives of the
peninsula, 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
Guiding the right to sell or dispose OF
such property or of its proceeds; and
they shall also have the right to. carry
on their industry, commerce and pro-
LESSONS, being subject in respect there
of to such laws as are applicable to
other foreigners. In case they remain
in the territory, they may preserve
their allegiance to the crown OF Spain
by making, before court of record,
within g. year from the date of the eX-
change of notifications of this treaty.
a declaration of their decision to pre-
serve such allegiance; in default of
which declaration they shall be held to
have renounced it and to have adopted
the nationality of the territory in which
they may reside.
The civil rights and political status
of the native inhabitants of the terri
tories hereby coded to the United States
shall be determined by congress.
ARTICLE X.
The inhabitants of the territories over
which Spain relinquishes or cedes her
sovereignty shall be secured in the free
exercise of their religion.
ARTICLE XII
Inc OpdnldTUS resulting III THE lSTTl-
tories over which Spain, by this treaty,
cedes or relinquisheS her sovereignty
shall be subject in matters civil, as
well as criminal, to the jurisdiction of
the courts of the country wherein they
reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws
governing the. same, and they shall
have the right to appear before such
courts, and to pursue the same course
as citizens of tbe country to which the
courts belong, r. -,t,a
ARTICLE XII.
Judicial proceedings pending at the
time of the exchange of Publications of
this treaty in the territories over which
Spain relinquishes or cedes her sover-
eighty, shall be determined according
to the following rules:
l. Judgments rendered, either in civil
suits between private individuals, or in
criminal matters, before the date NEIL
toned, and with respect to which there
is no recourse or right of review under
the Spanish law, shall be deemed to be
final, and shall be executed III due
form by competent authority in the
territory within which sucn judgment
should be carried out.
q Civil suits between private individ
uals which may, on the date mentioned,
be undetermined, shall be prosecuted
TO judgment before the court in which
they may then be pending, or in the
court that may be submitted therefor.
g. Criminal actions pending on the
date mentioned by the supreme court of
Spain against citizens of the territory,
which, by this treaty, ceases to be
Spanish shall continue under its juris-
diction until final judgment; but, such
judgment having been rendered, the eX
ecution thereof shall be committed to
the competent authority of the place in
which the case arose.
ARTICLE XIII.
The rights of property secured by
copyrights and patents acquired by
Spaniards in the Island de Cuba and in
Puerto Rico, the Philippines and other
ceded territories, at the time of the
echange of the notifications of this
treaty, shall continue to be respected.
Spanish scientific, literary and artistic
works. not subversive of power, in the
territories in question, shall continue TO
be admitted free of duty into such ter
ritories for the period of ten years, to
be reckoned from the date of the ex-
change of the notifications of this
treaty.
ARTICLE XIV.
Spain will have the power 70 cstab-
fish consular offices in the ports and
places Of the territories. the sovereignty
over which has been either relindIish-
ed or coded by the present treaty.
ARTICLE XIV.
The government OF each country VIII,
for the term of ten years, accord to
the merchant vessels of the country the
same treatment in respect of all port
charges, including entrance and clear
ance dues, light dues and tonnage ou-
ties as it accords to its own merchant
vessels, not engaged in the coaStwiSe
trade.