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(62 CONVENTION WITII SPAIN. 1834. ARTICLE IV. List Ofclaims On the request of the Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Catholic to be delivered Majesty at Washington, the Government of the United States will de· S} ggalwnlster liver to him, in six months after the exchange of the ratilications of this ` convention, a note or list of the claims of American citizens against the Government of S ain s ecif in their amounts respectively, and P · P Y g . . . three years afterwards, or sooner if possible, authentic copies of all the documents upon which they may have been founded. ARTICLE V. Ratificationgtg This convention shall be ratified, and the ratilications shall be exyyxcmvsgd changed, in Madrid, in six months from this time, or sooner if possible. n s. In witness whereof; the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed these articles, and atlixed thereto their seals. Done in Triplicate at Madrid, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. C. P. VAN NESS, (1.. s.) JOSE DE HEREDIA, (1.. S.) The jbllowing is a translation of the form, or model, of the imscription :

No. Perpetual rent of Spain. l Cupon of Payable in Paris dollars of rent at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, payable in Paris inscribed in the great book of the consolidated debt. on the of ---· 183 This inscription is issued in pursuance of a con- Cupon No. l. vention concluded at Madrid on the day ·—·············""""" of 183 between H. C. M. the Queen of Spain, and the U. S. of America, for the payment of the claims of the citizens of said States. Ixscurrrrou N0. Capital. Rent. Dollars Dollars or Francs. or Francs. The bearer of this is entitled to an annual rent of dollars or francs, payable at Paris every six months, on the and of by the bankers of Spain in that city, rating each dollar at 5 francs 40 centimes, in conformity with the royal decree of December 15th, 1825. Agreeably to said royal decree an appropriation of one per cent. on the nominal value of this rent is made annually at compound interest for the extinction of the same, which amount shall be employed hy the abovementioned bankers in such extinction periodically at the current rate. Madrid, or 183 The Secretary of State and of the Department of Finance. ( The Director of the Royal Caisse d Ulmortisation. In witness whereof we, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Her Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain and of the United States of America, have signed this model, and have adixed thereunto our sea s. Done at Madrid, this day of JOSE DE HEREDIA, (1.. S.) C. P. VAN NESS, (L. s.)