The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-07
AMERICAN DANISH TREATY.
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l Continued from First Page.) and liberties secured to them by the 1 laws now in force. If the present laws | are altered the said inhabitants shall not thereby be placed in less favora- ble position in respect to the above mentioned rights and liberties than they now enjoy. Those who remain in the islands may preserve their allegi- ance to the crown of Denmark by mak- ing before a court of record, within two years from the date of the exchange of notifications of this convention, dec laration of their decision to preserve such allegiance in default of which declaration they shall be held to have renounced it and to have accepted ale glance to the United States; but such, election of Danish allegiance shall not, after the lapse of said term of two years, be a bar to their renunciation or their preserved Danish allegiance and their election of allegiance to the Unit ed States and admission to the nation- ality thereof on the same terms as may ibe provided according to the laws of the United States for other inhabitants of the islands.
 The civil rights and the political status of the inhabitants of the islands shall be determined by the congress, subject to the stlpulations contained in the present convention.
 Danish subjects not residing in the islands, but owning property therein at the time of the cession, shall retain their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such prop erty being placed in this regard on the same basis as the Danish subjects re- siding in the islands and remaining therein, or removing therefrom. to whom the first paragraph of this article relates.
 Article 4-Formal delivery of the ter ritory and property ceded as aforesaid shall be made immed ately after the payment by the United States of the sum of money stipulated in the fifth article hereof; but the cession, with the right of immediate possession is nev- ertheless to be deemed complete on the exchange of the notifications of this convention, and any Danish troops which may be in the islands aforesaid snail be withdrawn so soon thereafter as may be practicable, but not later than six months after the said eN- change; it being, however, understood that if those persons, after having ter minated their Danish service, do not w.sh to leave the islands, they shall be allowed to remain there as civilians.
 The colonial treasury shall continue to pay the yearly allowances now given to heretofore retired functionares ap- pointed in the islands, but holding no royal commissions, unless those allow ances may have until now been paid in ' Denmark.
 Article 5-In full consideration of the cession of said islands, in full sover- . eighty entire and unencumbered, eX- | cept as stipulated in the present con vention the United States agrees to ! pay, within ninety days from the date of the exchange of the notifications of this convent on, in the city of Washing ton, to the diplomatic representative or other agent of his majesty, the King of Denmark. duly authorize1 to receive the money, the sum of s5 O00, 900 in gold coin of the United States. i
 Article G In case of differences of opinion arising between the high con tractine parties in regard to the inter pretation or application of this conven- ton, such differences, if they cannot be regulated through diplomatic negotia tions, shall be submitted for arbtra- tion and settlement to The Hague
 Article 1.-The notifications Of this shall be exchanged at Wash ington within six months from the cate thereof, after it shall have been ratified by both the high contracting parties according to their respective procedure.
 In wath whereof the respective plen- have signed and sealed this convention in the English and Dan ish languages. Y
 Done at Washington, the 24th day of January in the year of our Lord 1902.
 (Signed)
 John Hay (SeaD
 c. Brun (SeaD