propriated for the present year. In fine, the committee are of opinion that the receipts will, (if no unforeseen change should happen,) greatly exceed the annual expenditures. All which the committee respectfully submit. Treaty with Spain. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington, then, crossing the said Red river, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, by that parailei of latitude, to the South sea. The whole being as laid down în Melish's map of the United States, published at Philadelphia, improved on the 1st of January, 1818. Whereas a treaty of amity, settlement, and li-But, if the source of the Arkansas river shall be mits, between the United States of America and found to fall north or south of latitude 42, then the his Catholic majesty, was concluded and signed line shall run from the said source due south or between their plenipotentiaries, in this city, on north, as the case may be, till it meets the said the twenty-second day of February, in the year parallel of latitude 42, and thence, along the said of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine-parallel, to the South sea. All the islands in the teen, which treaty, word for word, is as follows:- Sabine, and the said Red and Arkansas rivers, throughout the course thus described, to belong to the United States; but the use of the waters and the navigation of the Sabine to the sea, and of the said rivers Roxo and Arkansas, throughout the extent of the said boundary, on their respective banks, shall be common to the respective inhabitants of both nations. TREATY Of amity, settlement, and limits, between the United States of America and his Catholic majesty. The United States of America and his Catholic majesty, desiring to consolidate, on a permanent basis, the friendship and good correspondence which happily prevails between the two parties, have determined to settle and terminate all their The two high contracting parties agree to cede differences and pretensions, by a treaty; which and renounce all their rights, claims, and pretenshall designate, with precision, the limits of their sions, to the territories described by the said line respective bordering territories in North America.that is to say: the United States hereby cede to With this intention, the president of the United his Catholic majesty, and renounce forever, ali States has furnished with their full powers John their rights, claims, and pretensions, to the territo Quincy Adams, secretary of state of the United ries lying west and south of the above described States; and his Catholic majesty has appointed the line; and, in like manner, his Catholic majesty most excellent lord don Luis de Onis, Gonsalez, cedes to the said United States all his rights, Lopez y Vara, lord of the town of Rayaces, perpe-claims, and pretensions, to any territories east and tual regidor of the corporation of the city of Sala-north of the said line, and for himself, his heirs, manca, knight grand cross of the royal American and successors, renounces all claim to the said terorder of Isabella the Catholic, decorated with the ritories forever. Lys of La Vendee, knight pensioner of the royal and distinguished Spanish order of Charles the third, member of the supreme assembly of the said royal order, of the council of his Catholic majesty-his secretary, with exercise of decrees, and his envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary near the United States of America. Art. 4. To fix this line with more precision, and to place the land-marks which shall designate exactly the limits of both nations, each of the contracting parties shall appoint a commissioner and a surveyor, who shall meet before the termination of one year, from the date of the ratification of this treaty, at Natchitoches, on the Red river, and proAnd the said plenipotentiaries, after having exceed to run and mark the said line, from the mouth changed their powers, have agreed upon 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, without exception of persons or places. of the Sabine to the Red river, and from the Red river to the river Arkansas, and to ascertain the la. titude of the source of the said river Arkansas, in conformity to what is above agreed upon and stipulated, and the line of latitude 42 deg. to the South sea; they shall make out plans, and keep journals of their proceedings, and the result agreed upon Art. 2. His Catholic majesty cedes to the United by them shall be considered as part of this treaty, States, in full property and sovereignty, all the ter- and shall have the same force as if it were inserted ritories which belong to him situated to the easttherein. The two governments will amicably ward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida. The adjacent islands de-nished to those persons, and also as to their respecagree respecting the necessary articles to be furpendent on said provinces, all public lots and tive escorts, should such be deemed necessary. squares, vacant lands, public edifices, fortifications, barracks and other buildings which are not private property, archives and documents, which relate directly to the property and sovereignty of said provinces are included in this article. The said archives and documents shall be left in session of the commissioners or officers of the U. States, duly authorized to receive them. pos shall be secured in the free exercise of their reli. gion without any restriction, and all those who may desire to remove to the Spanish dominions shall be permitted to sell or export their effects at any time whatever, without being subject, in either case, to duties. Art. 5. The inhabitants of the ceded territories Art. 3. The boundary line between the two Art. 6. The inhabitants of the territories which countries, west of the Mississippi, shall begin on his Catholic majesty cedes to the United States, by, the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sa- this treaty, shall be incorporated in the union of bine, in the sea, continuing north, along the west- the United States, as soon as may be consistent with ern bank of that river, to the 32d degree of lati- the principles of the federal constitution, and adtude; thence, by a line due north, to the degree of mitted to the enjoyment of all the privileges, latitude where it strikes the Rio Roxo of Nachi-rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United toches, or Red River, then, following the course of States. Art. 7. The officers and troops of his Catholic | lawful seizures at sea, or within the ports and terrimajesty, in the territories hereby ceded by him to torial jurisdiction of the United States. the United States, shall be withdrawn, and pos session of the places occupied by them shall be given within six months after the exchange of the rtifications of this treaty, or sooner, if possible, by the officers of his Catholic majesty, to the commissioners or officers of the United States, duly | appointed to receive them; and the United States shall furnish the transports and escort necessary to convey the Spanish officers and troops and their baggage to the Havana. Art. 8. All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by his Catholic majesty, or by his lawful authorities in the said territories, ceded by his majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid, if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic majesty. But the owners in possession of such lands, who, by reason of the recent circumstances of the Spanish nation, and the revolutions in Europe, have been prevented from fulfilling all the conditions of their grants, shall complete them within the terms limited in the same, respectively, from the date of this treaty; in default of which, the said grants shall be null and void. All grants made since the said 24th of January, 1818, when the first proposal, on the part of his Catholic majesty, for the cession of the Floridas, was made, are hereby declared, and agreed to be null and void. Art. 9. The two high contracting parties, anirated with the most earnest desire of conciliation, and with the object of putting an end to all the differences which have existed between them, and of confirming the good understanding which they wish to be forever maintained between them, reciprocally renounce all claims for damages or inju ries which they themselves, as well as their respective citizens and subjects, may have suffered until the time of signing this treaty. Finally, to all the 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 before 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 affairs of his majesty, or to his minister in the United States. And the high contracting parties, respectively, renounce all claims to 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, if any, which, by process of law, shall be established to have been suffered by the Spanish officers, and individual Spanish inhabitants, by the late operations of the American army in Florida. Art. 10. The convention entered into between the two governments, on the 11th of August, 1802, the ratifications of which were exchanged the 21st of December, 1818, is annulled. Art. 11. The United States, exonerating Spain from all demands in future, on account of the claims. of their citizens to which the renunciations herein contained extend, and considering them entirely cancelled, undertake to make satisfaction for the same, to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars. To ascertain the full amount and validity of those claims, a commission, to consist of three commissioners, citizens of the United States, shall be appointed by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, which commission shall meet at the city of Washington, and, within the space of three years from the time of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and decide upon the amount and validity of all the claims included within the descriptions above mentioned. The said commissioners shall take an oath or affirmation, to be entered on the record of their pro 1. The renunciation of the United States will ex-ceedings, for the faithful and diligent discharge of tend to all the injuries mentioned in the convention of the 11th of August, 1802. 2. To all claims on account of prizes made by French privateers, and condemned by French consuls, within the territory and jurisdiction of Spain. 3. To 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 in 1802, and until the signature of this treaty. The renunciation of his Catholic majesty tends: 1. To all the injuries mentioned in the convention of the 11th of August, 1802. their duties; and, in case of the death, sickness, or necessarry absence of any such commissioner, his place may be supplied by the appointment as aforesaid, or by the president of the United States, durFing the recess of the senate, of another commissioner in his stead. The said commissioners shall be authorized to hear and examine, on oath, every question relative to the said claims, and to receive all suitable authentic testimony concerning the same. And the Spanish government shall furnish all such documents and elucidations as may be in their possession, for the adjustment of the said claims, according to the principles of justice, the laws of nations, and the stipulations of the treaty between the two parties of 27th October, 1795, the said documents to be specified when demanded at the instance of the said commissioners. The payment of such claims as may be admitted and adjusted by the said commissioners, or the maex-jor part of them, to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars, shall be made by the United States, either immediately at their treasury, or by the creation of stock bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable from the proceeds of sales of public lands within the territories hereby ceded to the United States, or in such other manner as the congress of the United States may prescribe by law. 2. To the sums which his Catholic majesty advanced for the return of capt. Pike from the Provincias Internas. 3. To all injuries caused by the expedition of Miranda, that was fitted,out and equipped at New York. The records of the proceedings of the said com4. To all claims of Spanish subjects upon the missioners, together with the vouchers and docugovernment of the United States arising from un-ments produced before them, relative to the claims to be adjusted and decided upon by them shall, after the close of their transactions, be deposited in the department of state of the United States; and copies of them, or any part of them, shall be furnished to the Spanish government, if required, at the demand of the Spanish minister in the U. States. Art. 12. The treaty of limits and navigation, of 1795, remains confirmed in all, and each one of its articles, 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 longer valid. our powers, the present treaty of amity, settlement Done at Washington, this twenty-second day of [SEAL.] [TRANSLATION.] And whereas his said Catholic majesty did, on the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, ratify and confirm the said treaty, which ratification With respect to the 15th article of the same trea-is in the words and of the tenor following: ty of friendship, limits, and navigation of 1795, in which it is stipulated, that the flag shall cover the property, the two high contracting parties agree that this shall be so understood with respect to those powers who recognize this principle: but, if either of the two contracting parties shall be at war with a third party, and the other neutral, the flag of the neutral shall cover the property of enemies, whose government acknowledge this principle, and not of others. "Ferdinand the seventh, by the grace of God, and by the constitution of the Spanish monarchy, king of the Spains. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of February, of the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen last past, a treaty was concluded and signed in the city of Washington, between don Louis de Onis, my envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and John Quincy Adams, Esq. secreta. Art. 13. Both contracting parties, wishing to fa-ry of state of the United States of America, comvor their mutual commerce, by affording in their petently authorized by both parties, consisting of ports every necessary assistance to their respective sixteen articles, which had for their object the armerchant vessels, have agreed, that the sailors who rangement of differences, and of limits between shall desert from their vessels in the ports of the both governments and their respective territories; other, shall be arrested and delivered up at the in-which are of the following form and literal tenor:" stance of the consul, who shall prove, neverthe- [Here follows the above treaty word for word.] less, that the deserters belonged to the vessels that "Therefore, having seen and examined the sixclaim them, exhibiting the document that is cus- teen articles aforesaid, and having first obtained the tomary in their nation; that is to say, the American consent and authority of the general cortes of the consul in a Spanish port, shall exhibit the ducu-nation with respect to the session mentioned and ment known by the name of articles, and the Span-stipulated in the 2d and third articles, I approve ish consul in American ports, the roll of the vessel, and ratify all and every one of the articles referred and if the name of the deserter or deserters, who to, and the clauses which are contained in them; are claimed, shall appear in the one or the other, and, in virtue of these presents, I approve and rati they shall be arrested, held in custody, and deliver-fy them; promising, on the faith and word of a king, ed to the vessel to which they shall belong. to execute and observe them, and cause them to be Art. 14. The United States hereby certify that executed and observed entirely as if I myself had they have not received any compensation from signed them; and that the circumstance of having France, for the injuries they suffered from her exceeded the term of six months, fixed for the exprivateers, consuls and tribunals, on the coasts, and change of the ratifications in the 16th article, may in the ports of Spain, for the satisfaction of which afford no obstacle in any manner, it is my delibeprovision is made by this treaty; and they will pre-rate will that the present ratification be as valid and sent an authentic statement of the prizes made, and of their true value, that Spain may avail herself of the same, in such manner as she may deem just and proper. firm, and produce the same effects, as if it had been done within the determined period. Desirous at the same time of avoiding any doubt or ambiguity concerning the meaning of the eighth article of the Art. 15. The United States, to give to his Catho- said treaty, in respect of the date which is pointed lic majesty a proof of their desire to cement the out in it as the period for the confirmation of the relations of amity subsisting between the two na-grants of lands in the Floridas, made by me, or by tions, and to favor the commerce of the subjects the competent authorities in my royal name, which of his Catholic majesty, agree that Spanish vessels, point of date was fixed in the positive understandcoming laden only with productions of Spanish ing of the three grants of land made in favor of the growth, or manufactures directly from the ports duke of Alagon, the count of Punon Rostro, and don of Spain, or of her colonies, shall be admitted for Pedro de Vargas, being annulled by its tenor, I the term of twelve years to the ports of Pensacola think proper to declare that the said three grants and St. Augustine, in the Floridas, without paying have remained and do remain entirely annulled and other or higher duties on their cargoes, or of ton-invalid; and that neither of the three individuals nage, than will be paid by the vessels of the Unit-mentioned, nor those who may have title or inteed States. During the said term, no other nation rest through them, can avail themselves of the said shall enjoy the same privileges within the ceded grants at any time, or in any manner, under which territories. The twelve years shall commence three explicit declaration the said eight article is to be months after the exchange of the ratifications of understood as ratified. In the faith of all which I this treaty. have commanded to despatch these presents. SignArt. 16. The present treaty shall be ratified ined by my band, sealed with my secret seal, and due form by the contracting parties, and the rati-countersigned by the underwritten my secretary of fications shall be exchanged in six months from this despatch of state. time or sooner, if possible. "Given at Madrid, the twenty-fourth of October, In witness whereof, we, the underwritten pleni-one thousand eight hundred and twenty. potentiaries of the United States of America, and [Signed] FERNANDO. of his Catholic majesty, have signed, by virtue of Countersigned]-EVARISTO PEREZ De Castro.” And whereas the senate of the United States did, on the nineteenth day of the present month, advise and consent to the ratification, on the part of these United States, of the said treaty, in the following words: "IN SENATE OF THE UNITED States, [TRANSLATION.] Don Antonio Porcel, knight, pensioner of the royal and distinguished order of Charles 3d of the council of state, and secretary of state and of despatch of the ultra-marine government, &c. I certify that, under date of the sixth of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, roy "Resolved, two-thirds of the senators present concur-al letters patent of the same tenor were sent by ring therein, That the senate, having examined the the late council of the Indies to the governor captreaty of amity, settlement, and limits, between the tain general of the island of Cuba and its depenUnited States of America and his Catholic majesty, dencies, to the intendant of the army and royal made and concluded on the twenty-second of Fe-business of the Havana and its district, and to the bruary, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, governor of the Floridas, that each should do his and seen and considered the ratification thereof utmost, in his particular department, to give effect made by his said Catholic majesty, on the twenty-to the grant made to the duke of Alagon of various fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred lands in East Florida, of the following tenor: and twenty, do consent to, and advise the president of the United States to ratify the same." And whereas, in pursuance of the said advice and consent of the senate of the United States I have ratified and confirmed the said treaty, in the words following, viz: THE KING. My governor and captain general of the island of Cuba and its dependencies: the duke of Alagon baron de Espes, has manifested to me, on the twelfth of July last as follows: Sire-The duke of Alagon baron de Espes, captain of your majesty's "Now, therefore, I, JAMES MONROE, president of royal body guards, with the greatest respect, exthe United States of America, having seen and con- poses-that, it being the interest of the crown sidered the treaty above recited, together with the that the uncultivated lands should be given to great ratification of his Catholic majesty thereof, do, in capitalists, in order that they may be peopled and pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of cultivated, from which flow the advantages pointthe senate of the United States, by these presents, ed out and advised by all politicians, and by means accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, and eve-of which much or nearly the most of the fertile ry clause and article thereof, as the same are here. in before set forth. "In faith whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be hereto affixed. "Given under my hand, at the city of Washing ton, this twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and of the independence of the United States the forty-fifth. By the president: "JAMES MONROE. soil of the Floridas has been discovered, and it being a right of your majesty, as absolute lord, to dis. tribute them for the benefit of agriculture, and in reward and recompence of the eminent services which have been rendered to your majesty and your whole kingdom; being desirous of deserving those marks of the value of his magnanimous courage, and of contributing as far as possible to fulül the designs of population, so interesting to the commonweal, he humbly requests your majesty, that you would deign to grant him all the unculti"JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of State." vated land not ceded in East Florida, which lies beAnd whereas the said ratifications, on the part of tween the rivers Saint Lucia and Saint John, as far the United States, and of his Catholic majesty, have as the mouths by which they empty themselves been this day duly exchanged, at Washington, by into the sea, and the coast of the Gulf of Florida, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Secretary of state, and by ge- and the adjacent islands, with the mouth of the neral Don FRANCISCO DIONISIO VIVES, envoy extra. river Hijuelos, in the twenty-sixth degree of latiordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Cathotude, following the left bank up to its source, drawlic majesty: Now, therefore, to the end that the ing a line from lake Macaco, then descending by said treaty, may be observed and performed with the way of the river Saint John to the lake Valdes, good faith, on the part of the United States, I have crossing by another line from the extreme north of caused the premises to be made public; and I do said lake to the source of the river Amarima, fol. hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing of lowing its right bank as far as its mouth, in the fice, civil or military, within the United States, and twenty-eighth or twenty-fifth degree of latitude, all others, citizens or inhabitants thereof, or being and running along the sea coast, with all the adja within the same, faithfully to observe and fulfil the cent islands, up to the mouth of the river Hijuelos, said treaty, and every clause and article thereof. in full property to himself and his heirs; allowing them also to import negroes, for the labor and cultivation of the lands free of duties: a gift which I hope to obtain from your majesty's innate goodness." In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be 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 Having taken the premises into consideration, [L. s.] Lord one thousand eight hundred and twen and bearing in mind the distinguished merit of the ty-one, and of the sovereignty and indepen-memorialist, and his signal zeal for my royal serdence of the United States the forty-fifth. JAMES MONROE. vice, as well as the benefits to be derived by the state from an increase of population in the countries the cession whereof he has solicited, I have judged fit to grant him the same, in so far as is conformable to the laws of these my kingdoms; and to make it known to my council of the Indies, für its due execution, by a royal order of the seven. teenth of December, in the year aforementioned. Wherefore, I charge and command you, by this my royal cedula, with due observance of the laws to such cases pertaining, to give full and effectual ard to the execution of the said cession, taking all re- of those deserts into the abode of peaceable christians and industrions inhabitants, who will increase the population of your kingdoms, promote agricul ture and commerce, and thereby add immensely to your royal revenues. This enterprize should be conducted by a person, who, with a knowledge of the country, would combine the intelligence neces sary for comparing the progress made by other nations in similar institutions, and particularly by the United States, which within a very recent period, have advanced their power to an extraordinary height, and especially in the instance of the Mobile country, adjoining Florida, which, in the last six years, has received such an influx of emigrants as to be converted from a desert waste into a rich commercial province, highly improved, and peopled with more than three hundred thousand souls. A similar change would be effected in Florida within eighteen or twenty years, by the adoption of judicious arrangements, and by those exertions which your majesty's memorialist proposes to employ for the promotion of his personal interest, and consequently that of the state. Relying on the merits of the case, and the lively interest felt by your majesty in the national prosperity, and in the services and sacrifices of your majesty's memorialist, he humbly requests your majesty that, taking Don Evaristo Perez de Castro, knight of the or-them into consideration, you would be graciously der of Charles 3d, of the council of state, and secre- pleased to grant and cede to him in full right and tary of despatch of state, &c. property, and the mode and manner required by I certify that the foregoing signature of his ex-law, all the waste lands not heretofore ceded in cellency don Antonio Porcel, secretary of despatch of the ultra marine government, is that which he is accustomed to put to all his writings; and for the proper purposes I give the present certificate, signed by my hand, and sealed with my seal of arms, at Madrid, the twenty-first of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. I, THE KING. By command of the king our lord: ESTEVAN VAREA. And I confirm this exemplification, at Madrid, the 15th of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. ANTONIO PORCEL. EVARISTO PEREZ DE CASTRO. [TRANSLATION.] Don Antonio Porcel, knight pensioner of the royal and distinguished order of Charles 3d of the council of state, and secretary of state and of despatch of the ultra-marine government, &c. Florida, lying between the river Perdido, westward of the Gulf of Mexico, and the rivers Amaruja and Saint Johns, from Popa to the point where it empties into the ocean, for the eastern limit; and, for the northern, the boundary line of the United States; and, to the south, by the Gulf of Mexico, including the desert islands on the coast. He therefore, humbly prays, in consideration of the premises, and the unquestionable advantages to be derived by the nation, your majesty will be pleased to grant this his petition; and, thereupon, direct the necessary orders to be given to the local authorities to afford him all due aid and protection, as I certify that, under date of the sixth of Februa. well in designating the territory referred to, as in ry one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, roy-giving full effect to the whole enterprize. AIL al letters patent of the same tenor were sent by the whice he hopes from the munificence of your ma late council of the Indies to the governor captain (jesty." general of the island of Cuba and its dependencies, to the the intendant of the army and royal business of the Havana and its district, and to the governor of the Floridas, that each should do his utmost in his particular department to give effect to the grant made to brigadier the count of Punon Rostro of various lands situated in West Florida, of the following tenor: THE KING. Having taken the premises into consideration, and bearing in mind the distinguished merits of the memorialist, and his signal zeal for my royal service, as well as the benefits to be derived by the state from an increase of population in the countries, the cession whereof he has solicited, I have judged fit to grant him the same, in so far as is conformable to the laws of these my kingdoms, and to make it known to my council of the Indies, for its due exMy governor and captain general of the island ecution, by a royal order of the seventeenth of Deof Cuba and its dependencies: The brigadier the cember in the year aforementioned; wherefore, I count of Punon Rostro sumitted to me on the third charge and command you, by this, my royal cedula, of November last, what follows: "Sire-The briga- with due observance of the laws to such cases perdier the count of Punon Rostro, grandee of Spain taining, to give full and due effect to the said cesof the first class, and your gentleman of the bed sion, taking all requisite measures for its accomchamber in actual attendance, &c &c. throws him- plishment, without injury to any third party, and self at your majesty's royal feet with the most pro-to the end, that the said count of Punon Rostro may found respect, and submits to your majesty: That, prompted by the desire of promoting, by all possible means, the improvement of the extensive waste and unsettled lands possessed by your majesty in the Americas, which, by their fertility offer the greatest advantages, not only to your memorialist, but to the state, provided due effect, as is hoped, be given to the noble project formed by your majesty's memorjalist of converting a small portion forthwith carry his plans into execution, in conforminy with my beneficent desires in favor of the agriculture and commerce of the said territories, which require a population proportioned to the tertility of the soil, and the defence and security of the coasts, he giving regular accounts of his proceedings, for such is my will; and that due note be taken of the present cedula in the office of the accountant general of the Indies. 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