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 206 TREATY WITH SPAIN. 1819. [Here follows the above Treaty, word for word.] " Therefore, having seen and “Por tanto, haviendo visto y examined the sixteen articles afore-. examinado los referidos diez y seis said, and having first obtained the articulos, y habiendo precedido la consent and authority of the Gene- anuencia y autorizacion de las ral Cortes of the nation with re- Cortes Generales de la Nacion por spect to the cession mentioned and lo respectivo a la cesion que en los stipulated in the 2d and 3d articles, articulos 2° y 3° se menciona y I approve and ratify all and every estipula, he venido en aprobar y one of the articles referred to, and ratificar todos y cada uno de los the clauses which are contained in referidos articulos y clausulas que them; and, in virtue of these pre- en ellos se contiene; y en virtud sents, I approve and ratify them; de la presente los apruebo y ratipromising, on the faith and word fico; prometiendo en fe y palabra of a King, to execute and observe de Rey cumplirlos y observarlos, them, and to cause them to be ex- y hacer que se cumplan y observen ecuted and observed entirely as if enteramente como si Yo mismo los I myself had signed them: and that hubiese firmado: sin que sirva de the circumstance of having ex- obstaculo en manera alguna la circeeded the term of six months, cumstancia de haber transcurrido fixed for the exchange of the rati- el termino de los seis meses prefifications in the 16th article, may jados para el cange de las ratificaafford no obstacle in any manner, ciones en el articulo 16; pues mi it is my deliberate will that the deliberada voluntad es que la prepresent ratification be as valid and sente ratificacion sea tan valida y firm, and produce the same effects, subsistente y produzca los mismos as if it had been done within the efectos que si hubiese sido hecha determined period. Desirous at the dentro del termino prefijado. Yo same time of avoiding any doubt desoando al mismo tiempo evitar or ambiguity concerning the mean- qualquiera duda 6 ambiguidad que ing of the Sth article of the said pueda ofrecer el contenido del artreaty, in respect to the date which ticulo S°. del referido Tratado con is pointed out in it as the period motivo de la fecha que en el se for the confirmation of the grants senela como termino para la valiof lands in the Floridas, made by dacion de las concesiones de tierme, or by the competent authorities ras en las Floridas, hechas por mi in my royal name, which point of 6 por las autoridades competentes date was fixed in the positive un- en mi real nombre, a cuyo sena|a~ derstanding of the three grants of micnto de fecha se procedio en la land made in favor of the Duke of positiva inteligencia de dejar anu- Alagon, the Count ofPunonrostro, ladas por su tenor las tres conand Don Pedro de Vargas, being cesiones de tierras hechas a favor annulled by its tenor, I think pro- del Duque de Alagon, Conde de per to declare that the said three Pufionrostro, y Dn. Pedro de Vargrants have remained and do re- gas; tengo a bien declarar que has main entirely annulled and invalid; referidas tres concesiones han queand that neither the three inclivi· dado y quedan enteramento anuladuals mentioned, nor those Wl1G das e invalidadas; sin que los tres may have title or interest through individuos referidos, ni los que de them, can avail themselves of the estos tengan titulo 6 causa, puedan said grants at any time, or in any aprovccharse de dichas concesiones manner: under which explicit dc- en tiempo ni manera alguna: bajo claration the said Sth article is to cuya explicita declaracion se ha de be understood as ratified. In the entender ratificado el referido artifaith of all which I have com- culo S°. En fe de todo lo cual mended to despatch these presents. manrlé despachar la presente firma Signed by my hand, sealed with da de mi mano, sellada con mi