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 264 TREATY WlTlI SPAIN. 1819. other nation shall enjoy the same privileges within the ceded territories. The twelve years shall commence three months after the exchange of the ratitications of this Treaty. ARTICLE 16. Treaty zo be The present Treaty shall be ratified in due form,. by the contracting ¤¤g2¢g{_;;¤d8 parties, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this T8. c 1 S X- ~ · changed_ time, or sooner, 1f possi. In witness whereof, we, the under written Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of his Catholic Majesty, have signed, b virtue of our owers, the resent Treat of Amit, Settlement Y _ _ P P Y Y _ » and Limits, and have thereunto aflixed our seals, respectively. Done at Washington, this twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, (1.. s.) LUIS DE ONIS, (r.. s.) Ratification by his Catholic Majesty, on the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 0ct.24, 1820. “Ferdinand the Seventh, by the "Dn. Fernando Septimo, por la Grace of God, and by the con- Gracia de Dios, y por la Constistitution of the Spanish mon- tucion de la Monarquia Espanoarchy, king of the Spains. la, Rey de las Espanas. Ratification, Whereas, on the twenty-second Por cuanto en el dia veinte y g¥);il;° gyjaeof day of February, of the year one dos de Febrero del ano proximo ,,,Bmy'm-Fab thousand eight hundred and nine- pasado de mil ochocientos diez y 22, 1819. teen last past, a treaty was con- nueve, se concluyo y firmo en la cluded and signed in the City of Ciudad de Wasliington, entre Dn Washington, between Don Luis de Luis de Onis, mi Enviado Extra- Onis, my Envoy Extraordinary and ordinario y Ministro Plenipoten- Minister Plenipotentiary, and John ciario, y_Dn. Juan Quincy Adams, Quincy Adams, Esquire, Secretary Secretario de Estado de los Esta- 0f State of the United States of dos Unidos de America, autoriza· America, competently authorized dos competentemente por ambas by both parties, consisting of six- partes, un Tratado compuesto de tion articles, which had for their diez y seis articulos, que tiene por 0 ject tie arrangement of differ- objeto el Arreglo de Diferiencias ences and of limits hetween both y de Limites entre ambos Gol>ier— governments and their respective nos y sus respectivos Territories; territories; which are of the fol- cuya forma y tenor literal es el lowing form and literal tenor : siguiente :