The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-06
TEXT OF THE TREATY
Exact Copy of the Treaty of
Paris.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
THE LETTER OF THE SECRE
TARY OF STATE.
An IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DOCUMENT
Submitted TO the President by the President OF
Peace Commission and Later Irars.
mtted to The Senate Of the
United States.

mitted to The Senate Of the
United States.
Washington. Jan. 5.-The following is
the Presidents message and the letter
Of the Secretary of State, transmitting
to the Senate the treaty of peace CON
cluded at Paris between the United
States and Spain, together with the Off
cial text of the treaty being an exact
copy of the document brought to the
United States by the American commits
sioners:
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES:
/ transmit herewith, with a view to
its ratification, treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain, signed a.
the city of Paris. on December 10th.
1898; together with the protocols and
papers indicated in the list accompany
ing the report of the Secretary of State.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Executive Mansion. Washington, ID.
c., January 4th, 1895.
TO THE PRESIDENT:
The undersigned. Secretary of State,
has the honor to lay before the Presi-
dent, with a view to its submission to
the Senate il deemed proper, a treaty
of peace concluded at Paris, on Decem-
her 10th, 1893, between the United
States and Spain.
Accompanying the treaty are the
protocols of the conferences of the
peace commission at Paris. together with
copies Of statements made before the
United States commissioners, and other
papers Indicated in the inclosed list.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN HAY.
Department of State, Washington, d..
c., January Bird, 1899.
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA AND HER MAJESTY.
THE QUEEN REGENT Or SPAIN,
IN THE NAME OF HER AUGUST
son, DON ALFONSO XIII, desiring
to end the state of war now existing be-
tween the two countries, have for that
purpose appointed as plenipotentiaries:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES,
William II. Day. Cushman X. Davis,
William p. Frye, George Gray and
Whitelaw Reid, citizens of the United
States;
AND HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN
REGENT OF SPAIN,
Don Eugenio Montero Rios, President
of the Senate, Don Buenayentura de
Abarzuza. Senator of the Kingdom and
ex-Minister of the Crown; Don Jose de
Garnica, Deputy to the Cortes and AS
sociate Justice of~the Supreme court;
Don Wenceslao Ramirez de Villa
Tn, ~ lin, nd
lister Plenipotentiary at Brussels, and
Don Rafael Cerero. General of Division.
WHO, HAVING ASSEMBLED IN
PARIS, AND HAVING EXCHANG-
ED THEIR FULL POWERS. WHICH
WE'RE FOUND TO BE IN DUE AND
PROPER FORM, HAVE. AFTER
DISCUSSION OF THE MATTERS
BEFORE THEM, AGREED UPON
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES:
ARTICLE I.
Spain relinquishes all claim Of sover-
eighty over and title to Cuba.
And as the island is, upon its evacua-
fion by Spain, to be occupied by the
United States will, so long as such oc-
cupation shall last. assume and discharge
the obligations that may under inter
national law result from the fact of its
occupation, for the protection of life and
property.
ARTICLE Ii.
Spain cedes to the United States the
island of Porto Rico and other ISLANDS
now under Spanish sovereignty in the
West Indies, and the Island of Guam,
in the Marianas or Ladrones.
ARTICLE III.
Spain cedes to the United States the
archip.alaOQ Enown the pllilDDlIlc
Islands, and comprehending the islands
lying within the following line:
A line running west to east along or
near the twentieth parallel of north lati-
tude, and through the middle of the
navigable channel of Bachi. from the one
hundred and eighteenth 01Sth) to the one
hundred and twenty-seyenth 127th) de-
gree meridian of longitude east of Green
wich to the parallel of four degrees and
forty-five minutes (4.45 degrees) north
latitude, thence along the parallel of four
degrees and forty-fiye minutes t4.45 de-
grees) north latitude to its intersection
with the meridian of longitude one hun
dred and nineteen degrees and thirty-five
minutes (11935 degrees) east of Green
wich, thence along the meridian of longi-
tude one hundred and nineteen degrees
and thirty-fve minutes G19.35 degrees)
east OF Greenwich, to the parallel Of
latitude seven degrees and forty minutes
0.40 degrees) north, thence along the
parallel OF latitude seven degrees and
forty minutes tI.40 degrees north to its
intersection with the one hundred and
sixteenth 116thl degree meridian of
longitude east of Greenwich. thence by
direct line to the intersection Of tho
tenth 10th) degree parallel of north