The age-herald., 1899-01-06
Document for the First Time
 Made Public.
 REPORT OF SECRETARY HAY Together With Presidents MeS- sage Accompany Treaty. NO IMPORTANT DETAIL FORGOTTEN The Boundary of the Philippine Archi- peIago Specifically Provided For. MESSAGES TO THE U. S. CoNSULS And Replies, Concerning Their Nego-
The Boundary of the Philippine Archi- peIago Specifically Provided For.
MESSAGES TO THE U. S. CoNsULs
And Replies, Concerning Their Nego- tiations With Aguinaldo and the Philippine ta-Promises
 Were Made Them.

Washington, January 1.-The following is the presidents message and the letter of the secretary of state transmitting to the senate the treaty of peace concluded at Paris between the United States and Spain, together with the official text of the treaty, being exact copy of the document brought to the United States by the con- missioners:
 To the Senate of the United States.
 I transmit herewith, with view to its ratification, a treaty of peace between the United States and Spain, signed at the city of Paris on December 10, 1898, together with the protocols and papers indicated in the list accompanying the report of the secre- tary of state.
 (Signed) WILLIAM M'KINLEY Executive Mansion, Washington, January A. 1899.
 Secretary Hays Letter
 To the President.
 The undersigned, secretary of state, has the honor to lay before the president, with a view to its submission to the senate if deemed proper, treaty of peace con- ciuded at Paris on December 10, 1898, be- tween the United States and Spain
 Accompanying the treaty are the pro- tocols of the conferees of the peace com mission at Paris, together with copies of statements made before the United States commissioners, and other papers indicated in the inclosed list
 Respectfully submitted,
 (Signed) JOHN HAY. Department of State, Washington. Janu- ary 3, 1899.
 The Plenlpotentiaries
 The United States of America and her majesty the queen regent of Spain. in the name of her august son, Don Alfonso XIII. desiring to end the state of war now ex- isting between the two countries, have for that purpose appointed as plenipotentiaries the president of the United States Will liam R. Day, Cushman K. Davis, William F. Frye, George Gray and Whitelaw Reid. citizens of the United States, and her ma Jesty, the queen regent of Spain, Don Eugenio Montero Rios, president of the senate; Don Buena Ventura de Abarzuza senator of the kingdom and ex-mnister of the crown; Don Jose De Garnica, deputy to the cortes and associate justice of the supreme court; Don Wenceslao Ramirez De Villa-Urrutia, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Brussels, and Don Rafael Cerero, general of division; who, having assembled in Paris, and hay- ing exchanged their full powers which were found to be in due and proper form, have, after discussion of the matters be- fore them, agreed upon the following ar- ticles:
 The Peace Treaty
 Article 1-Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
 And as the island is, upon its evacuation by Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will so long as such occupation shall last, assume and dis charge the obligations that may under in- ternational law result from the fact of it's occupation for the protection of life and property.
 Article 2-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 Marianos Ladrones
 Article 3-Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine islands and comprehending the islands ly- ing within the following:
 Boundary of Philippines
 A line running from west to east along or near the twentieth parallel of north lat itude and through the middle of the navi- gable channel of Bachi, from the one hun dred and eighteenth Q1Sth) to the one hun dred and twenty-seyenth Q27th) degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich; thence along the one hundred and twenty seventh Q27th) degree meridian of longi- tGde east of Greenwich to the parallel of four degrees and forty-fve minutes 4.45) north latitude; thence along the parallel of four degrees and forty-flve minues 4.45) north latitude to it's intersection with the meridian of longitude one hundred and nineteen degrees and thirty-fiye minutes Q19.35) east of Greenwich; thence along the meridian of longitude one hundred and nineteen degrees and thirty-hve minutes Q19.30 east of Greenwich, to the parallel of latitude seven degrees and forty minutes GAO north thence along the parallel of latitude seven degrees and forty minutes GAO north to Its intersection with the one hundred and sixteenth Q16th) degree merid- ian of longitude east of Greenwich; thence by direct line to the intersection of the tenth Q0th) degree parallel of north lati- tude with the one hundred and eighteenth Q1Sth) degree of meridian longitude east of