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Ykricm views of the subject. fuflnef eo* j .fnd nro.tJe>. f ■ ■
join! above stated |count allowed
■e, Thi! the »!i
bill shall liot I
made where the debtor *11.111 I.ill to p.
ao) of the eatd several instalments.
the same shall become flue and payable.
1 bis sroendmeftl after some debate, !t;„. Son h
[ln-r, and rua 11:115 theoce,
MsYlh.to the Arkansas ri»er:
os the courM’ uf t!»e soothe
Arkansas, to its suiter, in l*t:t
d thence, try lk..t pdfs
101 ced the ^eOsiol..
The preliminary question being nut
_*• WsU the uouse now proceed lococ-
cider this resolution V' It was decided
mi the negative, 79 votes to 13. So the
resolution lies on the table.
Mr. Sergeant, from the judiciary com
mittee, to whom was referred the bill
from the Scu.V.e, to e*tabli*h an anifbrro I meat. , , , ] north or south of latitude 42, »!
...lorn nfbar.kniptcv throughout tbc Lot-! An unsuccessful motion was made to >hal) rJf) f mn , the said source d'
was al-o rejected.
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The committee then rove and reported published at PbilmUpIhu. impnned t" the
the hill to the House without — £ ia'K
hereafter,
Mr. Sergeant, from the same commit
tee, reported the following resolution;
Resolved, by the Senate and House 0/
Representatives of the United States ot
the tellers had been employed nearly L, , hcu ^ „ f thr „Z lirs „ m | t',„ ,, a »ig..iio!i
four hours.) j of the Sabine to the s<-aand nf the said ri-
Mr. Hardin then renewed the motion I Ters R f ,xn ami Arkansas, throughout the
he toade in committee to amend the bill ; ! extent 01 tliesaid boundary.on lh*-ir respec
. r'rreT assembled. That i when, a motion to that effect prevailing- J rive banka, shall be common to the re*,**-
A me nca, 10 Congress assem eo. tivr inhabitants oflmth notions.
where any state or sl.itcs having rompli
cd with the recommendation of Congress
in the resolution of tbe -3d September
1789, thall have withdrawn or »haU
hereafter withdraw, either in whole or
in part, the use of their j uls for prison
ers committed unJer the authority of the
United States, tbc marshal in such state or
states, under tbe direction of the judge
of the district, shall be and hereby is au
thorised and required to hire a conve
nient place to serve as a temporary jail,
and to make the necessary provision, un
til provision shall he made by law for
that purpose, and the said marshal be al
lowed bis reasonable expenses incurred
for the above porpo*e«. to be paid out of
the Treasury of the United States.
The resolution having been briefly
explained by Mr. Sergeant to have be
come ncce*sary bv the recent proceed
ing* of the State of Ohio, was ordered to
be engrossed fur a third reading without
a division.
On motion of Mr. Stores. it was,
Resolved, That a committee be ap
pointed jointly with such committee as
may be appointed by the Senate, to en
quire and report what subjects before the
two Hou-e* are peuperto be acted on du
ring the present session of Congress.
Mr. Clay rose to give notice to the
house, that he should on to-morrow
make a motion, tbe ultimate object of
which was the declaration of the admi«-
sion of the Sute of Missouri into tbe U-
oioo.
Rr.mrriov or sal awes, tc
The House resumed the consideration
of the unfinished bu*iness of yesterday,
which was the bill to reduce (on an av
erage, by 20 per cent.) the salaries of
the officers of the government, with the
amendment proposed by Mr. Campbell,
the object of which was to reduce the
pay of tbe members from eight dollars to
six dollars per diem.
Tbe subject occupied the whole day.
The questions which arose, sad the de
cisions thereon, were as follow :
Mr. Anderton moved to postpone the
bill indefinitely. This motion was nega
tived, by yeas and nays, 106 to 49.
Mr. Archer, of Md. moved to amend
the amendment, so as to repeal the ex
isting la « respecting the pay of members
of Congress, leaving the subject wholly
open, that tbe next Congress might fix
the compensation as they should think
proper. This motion was negatived.
Mr. Rhea moved to amend the amend
ment, so as to make tbe redaction take
effect from tbe commencement of the
present session. Before this amendment
was disposed of,
Mr. Clay, with the expressed intention
of putting the bill and amendment to
sleep, as one which would be productive
of nothing but a useless consumption of
time, moved to lay the bill on the table.
And,
Tbe motion was agreed to, 84 to 62.
PUBLIC LAID DEBT.
The heuse then, on motion of Mr.
Crowell. again resolved itself into a com
mittee of the whole, Mr. Allen, of New-
York, in the chair, on the bill for the
relief of purchasers of the pubiw, Jurklv
prior to the 1st July, 1820.
Mr. .WCoy had moved to strike out so
much of the bill as permits a conditional
surrender to the U. States of the land
purchased ; so much as dispenses with
interest on the money due for lands ! and
so much at makes a reduction, in certain
Gates, of twenty-five and thirty-seven
and a half per cent from the amount of the
debt.
This motion gave rise to a wide de
bate on the merits of the bill, in the
course of which the principle of the bill
was supported and opposed by the follow
ing gentlemen:
AOltKIT Tit* mix.
Messrs. Hardin
Culpepper
Allen, of Teno.
McCoy.
SOUTHS aitx
Messrs. Anderson
Brush
Hendrieks
Jones
Ctnjr
The question being taken on Mr. .If -
Coy'i motion, it was negatived by a large
majority.
Mr. Anderson moved to strike out that
claose of the bill which proposed to al
low an absolute reduction of thirty three
ytr cent, on the amount due by the debt
ors, and so to amend the bill ns to coniine
the discount to those who should make
prompt payment of the whole sum due.
This proposition brought on a long de
bate, in which Messrs. Beecher, Jones,
Cook, Hardin, Sergeant, Anderson, and
Clay, joined.
The maedi
amedment was finally negatived
•-ayes 65, noes 62.
Mr. Tucker of Va. moved to add the
‘following proviso to the lint section of
the bill:
Provided also. That where any pur
chaser bus purchased at the same time
two or more quarter sections,he shall not
be permitted to relinquish less than a
quarter section.
This amendment was also negatived
Mr. Hardin then, for reasons which
he stated, moved the following addition-
el proviso to tbe 3d section of tbe bill
The bill aod proposed amendment
were laid on tbe table.
Mr. Archer, of Va. theo reported that
the tellers appointed to examine the
ballots given for a committee of 23 nvtn.
hers od tbe Missouri subject, according
to the resolution of te-lerdav, had per
formed that duty—the result of which
ballot he delivered in.
It appeared that 157 members had
been voted far—but that the following
seventeen gentlemen only had a majori
ty of tbe ballots given and were elected,
vie:
Must* Clar, of K*n. Mtno Eldy, o: R.Iriund
Ford, ofYork
Calbrelb, of Vid
Hack ley, of Ji Y.
3 Moore, of I’a
Stephen*, of Con.
Ro;tr>, of Pa.
Southard, of .V J.
Cobb, of Ge
Hill, of Maine
Barbrar. of Va.
atom, of V Y.
Cocke of Tenn.
Rankin, or Mils.
Archer, of Va.
Brown, of Kr.
Seventeen only beingelected. there re
in lined six members yet to be appointed.
Air. Clay moved, as the operation of
balloting again to-morrow would be te
dious aod create delay, that the House
agree, by geocsal consent, to select tbe
remaining six member- from those having
received the next highest number of
votes.
It was also suggested that the Speaker
appoint the remaining six—and th•-
Speaker having intimated to the House
that, if the duty devolved on him, he
should, from a sense of propriety, maka
the appointment from the names standing
next highest to those elected, on the li*t
—the latter course was concurred in by
the House, Mr. Clay having withdrawn
his motion, in favor of that course.
It appeared then that the five following
gentlemen are also elected on the comit-
tee. being the next highest on the ii*t :
Messrs. Darlinelnn of Pa. Me»sr». Grow of N Y
Pitcher of N. York Livermore of N. H
Sloan of Ohio.
After these Messrs. Randolph and
Baldwin were next highest on the list,
and having an equal number of votes, it
remains for the Speaker to designate tho
gentleman who shall make the 23d mem
ber of the committee.
The House then adjourned.
By the President of the United Stoics.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a Treaty of Amity, Settlement,
and Limits, between the United States of
America-and his Catholic Majesty, was con
cluded and signed between their Plenipoten
tiaries in this City,on the twenty-second day
of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and nineteen, which
treaty, word for word, is as follows :
[uaioiaiL ]
TREATY
Of Amity, Settlement, and Limits, between the
United States of Amtrica and His Catho
lic Majesty.
Tbe United States of America and his Ca
tholic Majesty, desiring to consolidate, on a
permanent basis, the friendship and good
correspondence which happily prevails be
tween the two parties, have determined to
settle and terminate all their differences and
pretensions, by a Treaty, which shall desig
nate, with precision, the limits nf their res
pective bordering territories in North Ame
rica.
With this intention, the President of the
UfiiU.d States has furnished with their full
powers Jou.v Qijinct Adams, Secretary
of State nf the United States; and his Ca
tholic Majesty has appointed (lie must excel
lent Lord Dos Luis De O.vis, Gousalez,
Lopezey, Vara, Lord of tile town of Ravacts,
perpetual llegidor of the Corporation of the
City of Salamanca, Knight Grand Cross of
the Royal American Order of I-abclla the
Chathnlic, decorated with the. Lys of La
Vendee, Knight Pensioner, of the Royal aud
distinguished Spanish Order of Charles the
Third, Member of the. Supreme Assembly
of the said Royal Order of the Council of Ins
Catholic Majesty—his Secretary, with Ex
ercise of Decrees, and his Envoy Extraordi
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the
United States of America.
And the said Plenipotentiaries, after hav
ing exchanged their powers, have agreed up
on and concluded the following articles :
article 1.
There shall be a firm and inviolable peace
and sincere friendship between the United
States and their citizens, and his Catholic
Majesty, his successors and subjects, with
out exception of persons or places.
article 2.
His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United
States, in full property and sovereignty, all
the territories which belong to him situated
to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by
the name of East and West Florida. The
adjacent islands dependent on said provinces,
all public lots and squares, vacant lands, pub
lic edifices, fortifications, barracks and other
buildings, which are not private property,
archives and documents, which relate di
rectly to the property and sovereignty of
said provinces are included in this article.—
TMie said archives awl documents shall be
left in possession of the commissioners or of
ficers of the United States, duly authorized
to receive them.
abticlb 3.
The houwlary line between the two coun
tries, west of the Mississippi, shall begin on
the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the ri
ver Sabine, in the Sea, continuing north a-
long the western hank of that river, to the
32 degree of latitude—thence by a line due
north, to the degree of latitude where it
strikes the Rio Rnxo of Natchitoches, or
Red River; then, following tho course of the
Rio Itoxo westward, to the degree of longi
tude 100 west from London, and 23 from
The two blgb contracting parties agree to
cede and renounce all their rights, claims,
aod pretensions, to the territories desciilw-d
bv the said line: that is to say: “ the Unit
ed St.it* s lien I v ri de to his Ctlholie Ma
jesty, and renounce forever, ■ II In- ir rig its.
claims anj pr* !e ;-:uus. to the territories Iv
ins west and *01110 of the abmt de*criln-d
!in»—and, in like manner, his Catholic Ma-
I. sly rede* to the said United States all his
rights, claim*, a ,d pretensions, to any terr.
’r.ries ea*t and nor’h of I he said line, and
for hiinsi-lf, his h urs, and s-iert** irs, re
nomce all claim to the said territories for
ever.
article 4.
To fix this line w ith mure preci-ion, and to
place the land-marks which -hill designate
exactly the limits of h >lh nations,each ol the
contracting parties shill appoint a cmninii
sinner and a surveyor, who shall meet b -fori
ihe termination of one year, fro n the d .1 •
of the ratification of this treaty, at Natchito
ches on the Red River, and proceed to run
.and mark the said line, from the month ol
the Sabine to the Red River, and from tile
Red Ri ver to the river Arkansas, and to as
certain the latitude of the sou'ceof the said
river Arkansas, in conformity to what is a
hove agreed upon and stipulated, a id the
line of latitude it degrees to the South Sen,
they shall make out plans and keep journal*
of their proceedings, and the result agreed
upon by them shall be con-idered as part ol
this treaty and shall have the same force n-
if it were inserted therein. The two govern
ments will amicably agree respei ting the ne
cessary articles to be furnished to those per
sons, and also as to their respective escorts,
should such be deemed necessary.
ARTICLE J.
Tbe inhabitants of the ceded territories
shall be secured in the fr< c exercise of their
religion without any restriction, aud a'l those
who may de-ire to remove to the Spanish
dominions shall be per i ilted to sell or ex
port their effect* at any time whatever,
vithout being subject, in either case, to du
ties.
ARTICLE 6.
The inhabitants of the territories which
tlis Catholic Ma jesty cede3 to the 17. Slates,
by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the
Union of the United States, as soon a* may
lie consistent with th--principle* <e tin- fi-de-
ral constitution, and admiit-d to the enjoy
ment ol'all the privileges, ligh’s, and immu
nities, of the citizens of ih<- United Stales.
ARTICLE 7.
The officers and troops of his Catholic
Majesty, in tile territories hereby ceded by
him to the United States, shall he witndrawn
possession of the places oecupied by them
shall be given within six mouths after l e
exchange of the ratifications of this treaty,
or sooner, if possible, by the offinr* nf his
Catholic Maje-ty. to the commission! rs or
officers of the United States,-duly nppuiaten
to receivethein—andtlie United Statessh-.b
furnish the transports and escort necessary
to convey the Spanish officers and troops,
and their baggage to the Havana.
ARTICLE 8.
All the grant* of land made before the
itthof January, 1818, by his Catholic Ma
jesty, or by his law ful authorities in the sa:d
territories, ceded by his Majesty to the |_\
States, shall be ratified and ronfirine l to
the person in possession nf the land*, to'lhe
same extent that the same grants ivn'il i be
valid, if t >e territories had remain -d under
the dominion of his Catholic M i jesty. Hut
the owners in possession of such lands, who,
by reason nf the recent circumstances iff the
Spanish nation, and the revobitui is in Eu
rope, have been prevented from fidfilliag all
the conditions of their grants, shall complete
thPin within the terms limited in the same,
respectively, from the date of this treaty : in
default of which, the said giants sli dl lie null,
and void. All grants made since tile gplioi
January, t8U‘., when the first proposal, on
the part of his Catholic Majesty, for the ces
sion nf the Florid is, ivns mule, are hereby
declared, and agreed to be, null ai.d void.
article 0.
The two high contracting parties, animat
ed with the most earnest de-ire of concilia
tion, and with the object of putting an end
to all the difference* which have exist d be
tween them and of confirming the good in
derstaiiding which they wish to be forever
maintained between then), reciprocally re
nounce all claims for d images or injuries
which they, themselves, is well as their res
pective citizens and subjects, may have suf
fered until the time of signing ibis treaty.
1. The renunciation of the U. States will
extend to all the injuries mentioned in the
convention of the I till of August, iS02.
2 To all claims on account of prizes made
hy French privateers, and condemned by
French consuls, within the territory and ju
risdiction of Spain.
3. To all clnimsof indemnities on account
of the suspension of the right of deposit at
Ncvv-Orleons in 1802.
4. To all claims of citizens of the United
States upon the government of Spain, aris
ing from the unlawful seizures at sea, and ii
the ports and territories of Spain, or th
Spanish colonies.
5. To all claims of citizens of the United
States upon the Spanish government, state
ments of which, soliciting the interposition
of the government of the United State*, have
been presented to the Department of State
or to the Minister of the United States i-
Spain, since the date of the convention of
1802, and until the signature of this treaty.
The renunciation of his Catholic Majesty
extends:
t. To all the injuries mentioned’in the
convention of tile 11 th August, li!o-2.
2. To the sums which hi* Catholic Majes
ty advanced for the return of Captain l*ikc
from the Prnvincias Internes.
3. To all injuries caused hy the expediti
on of Miranda, that was fitted out and equip
ped at New-York.
4. To all claims of Spanish subjects upon
the government of the. United States, arising
from unlawful seizures at sea, or within the
I'"-, div, to at! the rl limsof subjects of hi*
Calhoun .\|: j. -ty upon the gov eminent of
tin: United Slates, io which the interposition
of III* Cattiohc Maje*Jy’s goveruine.it lias
been solicited before the dale of this treaty,
and since the date of the convention of ISU2,
or which tuny have been made to the De
partment of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty,
or o his Minister in the t ailed State*.
And the high contracting partie*. respec
tively. renounce all claim in indemnities for
any of tile recent event*, or transactions ol
their respective commanders a:id officers in
the Florida*.
Tile United State* will cause satisfaction
to he made for the injuries, if any, vv nich, by
process of law, shall be e»t«bh*hed to have
been * off red by t.ic Spanish officers, and in-
div idnal S|vani»h itl!l ibiLants, by the late ope-
lations of the American army ih Florida.
article 10.
The ronventio i entered into between the
two goverooienU on the lltli uf August,
1802. the ratification* iff which were ex
changed the 21st of December, I8iu, is an
nulled.
ARTICLE tl.
The United State*, exonerating Spain
from all demands in future, on acrmuit of
tie- cl iiin* of their ciliZ' ns, to which the re-
funciations herein contained extend, and
considering the n entirely cancelled, under-
tike to m.m* sjli«f.n tiuii for toe s one, to an
mount not xn-ediiig five millions of dol
lar*. Toaicut in the full amount and va-
li ii'y i f liio—e el.urn-.a t nminissioii,to eon-
si*! uf :hre“ Uo nim—iui. rs, Citizens of the
United Stales, shall be appointed hy Ihe Pre
sident, liv and with the advice mid consent
■if the Senate, nliirh commission shall meet
at the City ol Washington, and, within the
space ofthrei year* from ihe time of their
.list meeting, shall receive,examine, and de
ride upon tlii- atnuuut and v didily of all the
claims included within the descriptions a-
buve mentioned. The said Cintnni**ioners
*l:all t ike an oath or affirmation, to be enter
ed on the record of their proceedings, for the
faithful mid ddigent discharge of their dutic*
—and, in case of ihe death, sirlioe**, or ne
cessary absence of any such Commissioner,
hi* place may he supplied hy the appoint
ment as aforesaid, or by the President of
the United States, during the recess of the
Senate. ofanotherCouiinissioner in hi* stead.
The said Commissioners shall he authorized
to hear and examine, on oath, every questi
on relative to the *aid claims, and to receive
all suitable authentic testimony concerning
the same. And the Spanish government
■riinll furnish all such ducumentsaud elucida
tion* as may he in their possession, fur the
adjustment of trie said claim*, according to
the principles of justice, the laws of nations,
and the stipulations of the treaty between
the two.parties of the 27th October, 1795 ;
the said documents to be specified when de
manded at the instance of the said commis
sioners.
The payments of such rlaiins as may bi
nd nit led adjusted hy the said Commissi
oner*, or toe ma jor part of them, to an a-
mount not exceeding five millions of dollars,
-h ill be made by the United States, either
immediately at tm-ir Triasury, or hy the
creation of Stock bearing an interest of
six [>. r rent per annum, payable from the
proceeds of tiie sales of public lands within
the ter. itoiie* hereby ceded to the United
Stati s, or in such other manner as tht C'ou-
g-rs* of the United States may prescribe by
law.
The record of the proceedings of (he said
Commissioners, together with the vouchers
and documents produced before them, rela-
t-.e to the claims to be adjusted arid decid
ed upon them, shall, after the close of their
transaction*, be deposited in the Department
of State of the United States—and copies of
l hem, oi any part of them, shall he furnished
in the Spanish Government, if required at
the demand of the Spanish Minister in the
United States.
ARTICLE 12.
The treaty of limits be navigation, of 1795,
remains confirmed in all, and each one of its
•irtit les, excepting the 2d. 3d, 4th, 21st, and
the second clause of the 22d article, which,
having been altered by this treaty, or having
received their entire execution, are no loug-
r valid.
With respert to the 15th artirle of (he *ame
treaty nf Friendship, Limits, and Navigation,
if 1795, in which it i*stipulated, that the flag
ball cover the property, the two high con
raeting parties agree that this shall be soon-
I TStnod with respect to those powers who
ccoguize this principle—but, if either of the
two contracting parties shall lie at war with
i third party, and life other neutral, the flag
nf the neutral shall cover the property of e-
iiemies. whose government acknowledge this
principle, and nut of others.
article 13.
Roth contracting parties, wishing to favor
their mutual commerce, hy affording in their
ports every necessary assistance to their res
pective merchant vessels, have agreed, that
he sailors who shall desert from their ves
sel* in the ports of the other, shall he arrest
ed and delivered up, at the instance of the
consul, who shall prove, nevertheless, that
the deserters belonged to the vessels that
claim them, exhibiting the document that is
customary in tlo-ir nation—that is to say,
the American consul in a Spanish port, shall
exhibit the document known by the name of
Articles, and the Spanish Consul in \-nerii'nn
ports, the Roll of tile vessel: and if the name
of tliedesei ter or deserters, who an- claimed,
shall appear in the one or the other, they
shall be arrested, held in custody, and deli
vered to the vessel to which they shall be
long.
ARTICLE I *.
The United Status hereby certify that they
have not received any compensation from
France for the injuries they have suffered
from her privateers, consuls, and tribunals,
on the coasts, and in the porta of Spain, for
the satisfaction of iv ich provision is made
hy this treaty ; mid they will present an au
thentic statement of the prizes made, and of
tlurir true value, that Spain may avail her
self of the same, in such manner as she may
dccmjust and proper.
article 15.
Tin- United Slates, to give to his Catholic
Majesty a proof of their desire to cement
the relations of amity subsiding between the
two nations, and to favor the comrflerce of
the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, agree
that Spanish vessels,coming laden only with
productions uf Spanish growth or manufac
tures, directly from the ports of Spain, or of
her colonies, shall In* admitted, for the term
of twelve years, to the ports of Pcnsarola
and St. Augustine, in the Uloridas, without
paying other or higher duties on their car
goes, or of tonnage, than will be paid hy the
vessels of the United States. During the
said term, no other nation shall enjoy the
same privileges within Ihe ceded territories.
The twelve years shall commence three
months after the exchange of the ratifications
of this treaty.
ARTICLE !**.
Tie present treaty shall !;•: ratified ni die
form,by the contracting poili* and the ra
tifications shall In* exchanged io -i\ mulitll*
from this time, or sooner, if pun.-ible.
In wit!n»« whereof, we, the underwritten
PI"!ii|M»teiitiarie* of the L oin d State* of A-
mcrica, end of hi* Catholic Majesty, have
signed, by virtue of our powers, the present
Treaty of Amity, Settlement, mid Limit.*,
ami have thereunto affixed our seals, res
pectively.
Done at Washington, this twenty-second
day of February, one thousand eight hund
red aod nineteen.
[seal ] JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
[seal ] LUIS DE ONSS.
And whereas his said Catholic Majesty
did, on tile 21lh day of October, in Ihe year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and tw enty, ratify and confinn the said trea
ty, which ratification is in tho vvurd» and of
tiie tenor follow ing :
[thasslatiox.j
“Ferdinand the Seventh, by the grace, of
God, and hy the constitution of the Spa
nish monarchy, king of the Spains.
“ Where.'*, on the twenty-second day of
February, of the year one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen last past, a treaty w as
concluded aod signed in the City of Wash
ington, between Don Luis De Onis, my En
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary, and John Quincy Adams, Esquire,
Secretary of Stale of the United States of
America, competently authorised by both
partie-, coo*i*ting of sixteen articles, which
had for their object tile arrangement of dif
ferences and of limits between both govern
ment* andlbeir re*p* ctiveterritorics—w hich
are of the follow!- g form and literal tenor
[Here follows the above Treaty, word for
I word.]
“Then-fore, having sren and examined
the *ixti pn articles afon said, and hai ing first
obtained the consent and authority of the
General Cortes of the nation with respect to
the cession mentioned and stipulated iu th-
sacond and third articles, 1 approve and ra
tify all and every one of tile articles referred
to, and the clauses which are contained in
them—and in virtue of these presents, I ap
prove and ratify them ; promising, on th*
faith and word of a King, to execute aud ob
serve entirely as if I myself had signed them
—and that the circumstance of having ex
ceeded the term of six months, fixed for the
exchange of the ratifications iu the sixteenth
article may afford rio obstacle in any man-
ner,it is my deliberate will that the present
ratification he ns valid and firm, and produce
ihe same effects, as if it had been done, w ith
in the determined period. Desirous at the
same time of avoiding any doubt of amtiigu-
*y concerning the meaning of the lit!» arti
cle 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 hy me, or by the com
petent authorities in my royal name, which
point of date was Fixed in the positive under
standing of the three grants of land made in
favor nftbe Duke ofAlagon, the Count of
Punonrostro, and Don Pedro de Vergas, be
ing aniiuullcil hy its tenor, 1 think proper to
declare that the said three grant* have re
mained and do remain entirely annulled and
invalid ; &. that neither the three individuals
mentioned, nor those who may have title or
ii'terest through them, can avail themselves
of the said grouts at any time, orinany man
ner: under which explicit declaration the
said 81 h article i* to be understood as ratifi
ed. In the faith of all which I have com
manded to despatch these presents. Sign
ed hy my hand, sealed with my secret seal,
and countersigned by the. underwritten my
Secretary of Despatch nf State.
•Given at Madrid,She twenty-fourth of Oc
tober, one thousand eight hundred and twen
ty-
[Signed] FERNANDO.
[Countersigned,]
Evaristo Perez he Castro.”
And whereas the Senate of the United
States did, on the nineteenth day of tho pre
sent month, advise and consent to the ratifi
cation, on tiie part of the United States, of
the said Treaty, in the following words :
“I.X Se.VATEOF THE U.MTEU STATES,
February tilth, 1821.
“ Resolved, Itco-thirds of the Senators pre
sent concurring therein, That the Senate,
hai ing examined (he Treaty of Amity, Set
tlement, and Limits, between the United
States of America and His Catholic Majes
ty, made and concluded on the. twenty-se
cond of February, one thousand eight hun
dred and nineteen, and seen and considered
the ratification thereof made hy hi* said Ca-
tholic Majesty, on the twenty-fourth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and
twenty, do consent to, aod advise the Pre
sident uf the U. Stales to ratify the same.”
And whereas in pursuance of the said ad
vice and consent of the Senate of the United
Slates, I have ratified and nnfirmed the said
treaty, in the words following, viz :
“ Now, therefore, I. James Mo.vroe, Pre
sident of the United States of America, hav
ing seen and considered the treaty above re
cited, together with the ratification of his
Catholic Majesty thereof, do, in pursuance
of the aforesaid advice and consent of the
Senate of the United States, by these pre
sent*, accept, ratify, and confirm the said
treaty, and every rlauseand article thereof,
as the same arc herein before set forth.
In faith whereof, I have caused the seal of
the United Slates of America to be hereun
to affixed.
Given under my hand, at Ihe city nf Wash
ington, t!.e twenty-second day of February,
in the year nf our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-one, and of the Inde
pendence of the United States the forty-
fifth. J
JAMES MONROE.
By tiie President,
John Quinct Adams,
Secretary of Slate."
And whereas the said ratifications, on the
part of the United States, and of his Catho
lic Ma jesty,have been thisday dulyexchang-
cd,at Washington,hy John Quinct Adams,
Secretary of State of the United States, and
by General Don Francisco Dionisio V;-
ve3, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Majesty:—
Now, therefore, to the end that the said trea
ty may he observed and performed with good
faith, on the part of the United States, I
have caused the premises to be made public
— and I do hereby enjoin k require nil per
sons hearing office, civil or military, tvithin
the United Stales, mid all others, citizens J or
inhabitants thereof, orbeing within the same,
faithfully to observe and fulfil the. said trea
ty, and every clause and article thereof.
In testimony wh< renf, I have caused the
*eal of the United States to he affixed to
these presents, and signed the same with my
hand.
Done at the City of Washington, the
twenty-second day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
[r.. ?.] eight hundred and twenty-one,and
of the Sovereignty and Independ
ence of the United States the for
tj -fifth.
JAMES MONROE
P>y the President,
John Quinct Adams,
Secretary of State.
LY THE SEMITE OF THE U. S.
Sati rdat, Feb. t4.
Mr. Eaton laid on the table the follow ing
resolution :
Resolved, That the President of the Uni-
ted States lie requested to communicate to
the Senate, if any, snd what proceedings
have I teen had in relation to any person hold
ing an office under the authority of the go
vernment, charged wi'h the introduction of
any slate or slaves into the U. States contra
ry to the existing laws upon the subject:
and that he report such evidences and opin
ions connected therewith, not confidentially
communicated to him, as may be in his pos
session.
The bill to reduce the military peace es
tablishment w as read the third time, as a-
mended, passed, and returned to the other
house fur concurrence in the amendments.
MISSOURI.
On the motion of Mr. Holmes of Maine,
the Senate proceeded to consider tbe mes
sage from the House of Representatives, an
nouncing their appointment of a committee
to meet such committee as may be appoin
ted by the Senate, on the suliject of the ad
mission of Missouri into the Union ; and. the
question was on concurring with tbe other
house in the course proposed.
Mr. Smith of S. C. observed, that, from
the hasty glance lie could give the subject,
he saw no good reason for such a proceed
ing on the part of the Senate. There was
no doubt or difficulty here on the subject of
Missouri. If tlu-re was any in the other
house, he had no objection to give them the
adi ire of the Senate, if necessary, hut it
could be no reason for the appointment of
a cummittecon the part of this body to con
sult with them. Not being uble to seethe
expediency of the course proposed, M. S.
moved that the message lie on the table.
Mr. Barbour of Va. remarked that the
lime left to act on this matter was so short
that a little delay might defeat the object.—
The subject was one nf great importance, Mr.
B. sod, and he Imped the Senate would act
on it i nmediately. The course proposed hy
the other house was not a novelty in the pro
ceedings of Congress or of the English par
liament, whence ino3t of our rules were
drawn. Committees of conference were
frequently appointed on subjects much:
less importance than the present; and it
was proper that, when the two houses do
not agree on the principles of a public act,
there should be a joint committee to seo if
they can devise any course in which the two
brandies would probably meet. This was
a mere proposition for such an enquiry, and
lie hoped the Senate would accede to it.
Mr. Smith said he had no opportunity to
see what the proposition from the oilier
House actually was, as it had been just re
ceived, and once read. If the Senate were
straitened for time, it was a reason for not
acting precipitately, and the importance of
the subject, which bad been urged in favor
of an immediate decision, was a reason for
acting w ith caution. As to the mode of pro
ceeding iu Parliament, it did riot apply to
this case. If the other House had sent back
the resolution of the Senate for tbe admis
sion of Missouri, with an amendment, on
which the two Houses could not agree, a
committee of conference would be properon
the disagreeing votes—but a committee of
conference to settle the original principles
was a novelty. He hoped, at any rate, that
the Senate would allow a little time—even
a half an hour—to think of this proposition.
Mr. Holmes, of Maine, hoped that the
message would not be laid on the fable.—.
The subject involved in it was sufficiently
embarrassed and difficult already, and he
should be sorry to sec any additional impe
diments thrown in the way. It was simply'
a proposition from the other House fur a
committee of enquiry into an all important
matter—and would it, he asked, be proper
for the Senate to refuse it ?
Tbe motion to lay the message on the ta
ble was negatived.
The Senate then concurred in the propo
sition—ayes 29, noes 7 ; and Messrs. Holmes,
of Maine, Roberts, Morril, Barbour, South
ard, Johnson, of Kentucky, and King, of N.
Y. were appointed, in pursuance thereof, th*
committee on the part of the Senate.
MEMORIAL.
The following is the Memorial, writ
ten by a Member of the Legislature of
\ irgioia, subscribed by many of its mem
bers, memt^rs of the Executive and Ju
diciary, and Citizens—and transmitted to
Washington.—We understand, the Pre
sident of the U. S. has intimated an in
tention, before any thing further is done,
to call a Court of Enquiry in the case.—
The Commodore either applied for it
himself, or has eagerly acquiesced in this
suggestion from head-quarters :
To the Senators and Representatives of the
State of Virginia in the Congress of the
United States.
GENTLEMEN;
During the present winter Commo
dore James Barron having presented w
claim to the Legislature p[ Virginia found
ed upon the services of hjs father in (lie
war of the Revolution, and having visit
ed this city with the view of giving at
tention to that claim, many of us to whom
he had before been personally unknown,
have necessarily formed an acquaintance
with him. In any circumstances the
politeness, the dignity and the modesty
of his deportment could not have failed
to win our esteem ; but when to the in
fluence of these attractions is added the
sympathy which his situation in relation
to the N r avy of the United States is so
eminently calculated to inspire, you will
not be surprised at (he promptitude and
earnestness with which we immediately
adopted a resolution to address you, and
to ask your aid in restoring him to his
proper station in the service of his coun
try.—We are fully aware of the delicacy
of the task, which we wish you to under
take.—We know that any efforts which
you might make to accomplish our pur
poses may be attributed to an improper
design to interfere with the Executive
Department of the government. But
whilst we disclaim for ourselves any
such intention, we indulge the hope,
that without making any sacrifice ofyour
dignity as representatives, and without
approaching ton closely the line of exc*.
cutivc duties, the means will readily sug-