718 PUBLIC TREATIES. articles referred to, and the clauses which are contained in them; and, in virtue of these presents, I approve and ratify them; promising, on the iaith and word of a King, to execute and. observe Itliem, and to cause them to be executed and observed entirely as it I myself had signed them; and that the circumstance of having exceeded the term ot six mouths, iixed for the exchange of the ratilications in the llith article, may afford no obstacle in any manner, it is my deliberate will that the present ratification be as valid and firm, and produce the same effects, as if it had been done within the determined period. Desirous at the same time of avoiding any doubt or ambiguity concerning the meaning of the 8th article of the said treaty, in respect to the date which is pointed out in it as the period for the confirmation of the grants of lands in the Floridas, made by me, or by the competent authorities in my royal name, which point of date was Hxed in the positive understanding of Grants of land the three grants of land made in favor of the Duke of Alagon, the Count ¤¤¤¤11¤d· of Punonrostro, and Don Pedro de Vargas, being annulled by its tenor, l think proper to declare that the said three grants have remained and do remain entirely annulled and invalid; and that neither the three individuals mentioned, nor those who may have title or interest through them, can avail themselves of the said grants at any time, or in any manner; under which explicit declaration the said 8th article is to be understood as ratified. In the faith of all which I have commanded to Signature. despatch these presents. Signed by my hand, sealed with my secret seal, and couutersigned by the underwritten my Secretary of Despatch of State. Date. Given at Madrid, the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. FERNANDO. Evnusro Pnnnz ma CASTEO. [Copies of the grants annulled by the foregoing treaty will be found in United States Statutes at Large, volume 8, pp. 267-273.] SPAIN, 1834. F,,b_17,183_,_ CONVENTION WITH SPAIN FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS, CON-
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SENATE MAY 13, 1834; RATIFIED BY PRESIDENT; RATIFICATIONS EX- CHANGED AT MADRID AUGUST 14, 1834; PROCLAIMED NOVEMBER 1, 1834. Convention for the settlement of Claims between the United States of America and Her Catholic Majesty. Contacting pu. The Government of the United States of America and Her Majesty ties. the Queen Regent, Governess of Spain during the minority of her august daughter, Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d, from a. desire of adjusting by a definitive arrangement the claims preferred by each party against the other, and thus removing all grounds of disagreement, as also of strengthening the ties of friendship and good understanding which happily subsist between the two nations, have appointed for this purpose, as their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely: Negomtom. The President of the United States, Cornelius?. Van Ness, a citizen of the said States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d; and Her Majesty the Queen Regent, in the name and behalf of Her Catholick Majesty Donna Ysabel the 2d, His Excellency Don José de Heredia, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Ysabel the Catholick, one of Her Majesty’s Supreme Council of Finance, ex-Envoy Extraordinary · and Minister Plenipotentiary, and President of the Royal Junta ot Appeals of Credits against France; Who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the tollowing articles: ‘
