The age-herald., 1899-01-06
FULL TEXT OF THE
 TREATY AGREED UPON
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rights as the crown of Spain and its au- thorites possess in respect of the official archives and records, executive well as judicial in the islands above referred to which relate to said islands or the rights and property of ther inhabitants. Such archives an records shall be carefully pre- served and private persons shall without distinction have the right to acquire in accordance with law, the copies of the contracts wills and other instru- ments forming part of notarial protocols or files or which may be contained in the ex- ecutive or judicial archives, be the latter in Spain or in the islands aforesaid.
 Rights of spanish Citizens
 Article 9-Spansh subjects, natives of tlle peninsula residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relin- quishes or cedes her sovereignty may re- main in such territory or may remove therefrom retaining in either event all the,r rights of property, including 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 professions, 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 alleg- lance to the crown of Spain, by making before a court of record within year from the date of the exchange of ratifleations of this treaty a declaration of their deci- sion to preserve such allegiance; on 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 territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be deter mined by congress.
 Free Exercise of Religion
 Art ,cle 1e-The inhabitants of the terri tories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured ill the free exercise of their religion.
 Article 1.-The Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be subject in matters civil as well as crlm- inal to the jurisdiction of the courts or the country wherein they reside, pursuant 10 the ordinary laws governing the same; anu they shall have the right to appear before such courts and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to whlch the courts belong.
 Article 12-Judicial proceedings pending at the time of the exchange of notifications of this treaty in the territories over whlch Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be determined according to the fol- lowing rules:
 1 Judements rendered either in civil suits by private individuals or in criminal matters. before the date mentioned and with respect to which there is no re- course or right of review under the Span ish law shall be deemed to be final and shall be executed in due form by compe tent authority in the territory within such which judgments should be carried out Civil Suits Pending
 2 Civil suits between private individuals sal, tbn dntn hn T- determined shall be prosecuted to judgment by the court in which they may be then mitted thereafter.
 B. Criminal actions pending on the date mentioned before the supreme court of Spain against citizens of the territory which by this treaty ceases to be Spanish shall continue under Its jurisdiction until final judgment; but such judgment having been rendered the execution thereof shall be committed to the competent authority of the place in which the case arose. Article 13-The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island de Cuba and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other 1 ceded territories at the same time of the exchange of the notifications of this treaty, | shall continue to be respected. Spanish scientific, literary and artistic works, not subversive of public order in the territories in question: shall continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories for the period of ten years, to be reckoned from the date of the exchange of the ratifca- tions of this treaty.
 Article 14-Spain will have the power to establish consular offices in ths ports and