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 SPAIN, 1819. 715 good understanding which they wish to be forever maintained between them, reciprocally renounce all claims for damages or injuries which they, themselves, as well as their respective citizens and subjects, may have sutfered until the time of signing this treaty. The renunciation of the United States will extend to all the injuries B! the Unihd mentioned in the convention of the 11th of August, 1802, S'>¤*°¤~ 2. To all claims on account of prizes made by French privateers, and condemned by French Consnls, within the territory and jurisdiction of S in. 3.pTo all claims of indemnities on account of the suspension of the right of deposit at New Orleans in 1802. 4. To all claims of citizens of the United States upon the Government of Spain, arising from the unlawful seizures at sea, and in the ports and territories of Spain, or the Spanish colonies. 5. To all claims of citizens of the United States upon the Spanish Government, statements of which, soliciting the interposition of the Government of the United States, have been presented to the Department of State, or to the Minister of the United States in Spain, since the date of the convention of 1802, and until the signature of this treat. Thg renunciation of His Catholic Majesty extends- By Spain. 1. To all the injuries mentioned in the convention of the 11th of August, 1802. 2. To the sums which His Catholic Majesty advanced for the return of Captain Pike from the Provincias Internas. 3. To all injuries caused by the expedition of Miranda, that was fitted out and equipped at New York. . 4. To all claims of Spanish subjects upon the Government of the United States ariziug from unlawful seizures at sea, or within the ports and territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Finally, to allthe claims of subjects of His Catholic Majesty upon the Government of the United States in which the interposition of his Catholic Majesty’s Government has been solicited, betore the date of this treaty and since the date of the convention of 1802, or which may have been made to the department of foreign aifairs of His Majesty, or to his Minister in the United States. And the high contracting parties, respectively, renounce all claim to By both i>¤rti¤¤· indemnities for any of the recent events or transactions of their respective commanders and officers in the Floridas. The United States will cause satisfaction to be made for the injuries _ Satisfaction for if any, which, by process of law, shall be established to have been suti !¤J¤¤°¤f '§1*¤{‘a°b· fered by the Spanish officers, and individual Spanish inhabitants, by ‘°°"°“° °" “‘ the late operations of the American Army in Florida. Anrionn X. The convention entered into between the two Governments, on the ¤¤¤v¤¤ti<·¤ °f 11th of August, 1802, the ratiilcations of which were exchanged the Qs5A3i 1802* ‘“" 21st December, 1818, is annulled. · [s“pP_.,,,’,,2_, Ancrxonn XI. The United States, exonerating Spain from all demands in future, on Uviwi Stem to account of the claims of their citizens to which the renunciations herein ;‘;°$?{"‘f:""' °f contained extend, and considering them entirely cancelled, undertake ° to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding live millions of dollars. To ascertain the full amount and validity of those Commission to gaims, g commission, to consisltucf [thee: Cgmmissionetrs, citilzenstgf tthe be appointednited ta shall be a poin y e resident, y an wi the advice and tgdiisent of thei) Senate, which commission shall meet at the mgjggjg °f °°m' city of Washington, and, within the space of three years from the time Dum,,,,,, ,,f,,,,,,,_ of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and decide upon the mission.