will be respectively delivered within one month after each has been settled by the Argentine Commissioners of Liquidation and Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, or his representative.

Art. V. These coupons will be received, from the day of their issue, at the Treasury of the Argentine Government, at par, in payment for public lands; and they will also be received, at par, in the principal customhouses of the Confederation, and, for the present, in those of Mendoza, Rosario, Corrientes, and Gualeguaychu, in payment of customs' dues, after the first of January of the year in which they respectively fall due. The bearer will be credited with the interest on the coupon up to the day on which it is received, either for the purchase of public lands or payment of customs' dues.

Art. VI. The coupons and interest will always be paid in silver dollars, or in ounces, at the legal value of seventeen dollars to the ounce.

Art. VII. All the revenues of the Argentine Government are made chargeable for the fulfilment of the present Convention.

Art. VIII. Inasmuch as similar Conventions are this day signed by the same Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Confederation and Plenipotentiaries of France and Sardinia respectively, the Argentine Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission, composed of the Ministers or Chargé d'Affaires of Great Britain, France, and Sardinia, and of three members named by the Argentine Government, which shall have for object to endeavour to settle amicably any differences which may arise with regard to any of the three Conventions.

Art. IX. The ratifications of this Convention will be exchanged at Paraná within eight months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done at Paraná, provisional capital of the Argentine Confederation, on the twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftyeight.

(L. S.) W. D. Christie. Bernabe Lopez.
Santo Derqui.

Table annexed to the Convention.

Calculation showing how the debt will be paid off in thirty-four years, beginning in 1860, and ending in 1893.

On a supposed debt of 100,000 dollars, the interest payable in the year 1860 will be 6,000 dollars, and 1,000 will be paid off at the end of the same year. The amount paid off in every succeeding year increases exactly as the amount of interest for the year diminishes; interest and instalment of payment making a total of 7,000 every year, except the last, when there is only a small remainder of the debt.

In order to determine more clearly some of the stipulations contained in the Conventions concluded on the 21st of August, 1858, between their Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiaries of England and France, and the Chargé d'Affaires of Sardinia, and the Ministers Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Confederation, and in order to facilitate the carrying out of the same:

The Undersigned, that is to say, George Fagan, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, subject to the approbation of his Government, and his Excellency Brigadier-General and Senator Don Tomas Guido, in virtue of the full powers conferred on him by his Excellency the Vice-President, have agreed on the following Articles:

Art. I. Articles II and IX of the Convention of the 21st of August, 1858, and the Protocol of the same day, are cancelled, and are replaced by the following Additional Articles to the said Convention, which Articles shall have the same force and value as if they had been inserted therein word for word.

Art. II. To the principal of each sum awarded as compensation settled and liquidated in accordance with Article I of the said Convention, interest shall be added in the following proportions:

In the case of claims arising out of destruction and forcible seizure of cattle, destruction of farm property, sequestration of merchandize, thefts, and other losses, fifty per cent. interest in the aggregate shall be paid,

however remote may be the date of the acts which gave rise to the claim.

In the case of forced loans and other debts whose amount was clearly defined originally, five per cent. per annum shall be paid, calculated from the date of the acts which have occasioned the indemnity, or from the date of their recognition, to the 1st of October, 1859, even although the certificates given on account of the loan may fix the interest at one per cent. per month, or twelve per cent. per annum.

In the case of claims arising out of requisitions made, and other debts contracted, during the siege of Buenos Ayres, from the 29th of January, 1853, to the raising of the siege, and in the case of those which may have arisen in other provinces subsequent to the year 1852, five per cent. per annum shall be paid from the date of the facts to the same date of the 1st of October, 1859.

It is understood that none of the claims mentioned in the foregoing paragraph on account of the siege shall include those which are comprised in the arrangements made, or about to be made, between the Agents of England and the Government of Buenos Ayres.

Art. III. The Government of the Argentine Confederation binds itself to pay interest on the debt at the rate of six per cent. per annum from and after the 1st of January, 1860, and to redeem it by annual instalments of one per cent. per annum, the first of which shall be made with the first payment of the said interest of six per cent. on the 31st of December, 1860; and from the 31st of December, 1860, the amount of these instalments shall be augmented every year in proportion as the part of the interest which remains to be paid is diminished, so that the whole of the debt shall be redeemed in a period of thirty-four year, according to the calculation in the table annexed to the Convention.

Art. IV. Every debt of which the principal, with the interest liquidated on the basis herein laid down, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, shall be wholly paid off in two equal payments, to be made on the 31st of December, 1860, and on the 31st of December, 1861, without being subject to the terms and conditions of the preceding Article.

Art. V. In case the Government of the Confederation should wish to pay off the whole or a part of the in

demnities awarded by the present Convention, the amount of the principal owed shall be accepted as payment in advance.

Art. VI. No claim of the nature of those considered in the preamble of the Convention of the 21st of August, 1858, shall be presented after the 31st of December, 1860. This term shall not be extended.

Art. VII. The ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged in Paraná, within the space of eight months, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto, the seals of their arms.

Done in Paraná, Provisional Capital of the Argentine Confederation, on the eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

(L. S.)

George Fagan.

(L. S.)

Tomas Guido.

XCII.

Préliminaires de paix entre l'Espagne et le Maroc, signés près du campement de Gualdras, le 25 mars 1860*).

Traduction.

Léopold O'Donnell, duc de Tetuan, comte de Lucena, etc., et Muley-el-Abbas, calife, etc., dûment autorisés par S. M. la reine des Espagnes et par S. M. le roi de Maroc, sont convenus des bases préliminaires ciaprès, pour la conclusion du traité de paix qui doit mettre un terme à la guerre entre l'Espagne et le Maroc.

Art. 1er. S. M. le roi de Maroc cède à S. M. la reine des Espagnes, à perpétuité et en pleine propriété et souveraineté tout le territoire compris depuis la mer, en suivant les hauteurs de Sierra Ballones, jusqu'au chemin d'Anghera.

Art. 2. De la même manière, S. M. le roi de Maroc s'oblige à concéder, à perpétuité, sur la côte de l'Océan, à Santa Cruz, la Pequerra, le territoire suffisant pour la formation d'un établissement comme celui que l'Espagne y a possédé antérieurement.

*) Voyez le Moniteur Universel 1860, p. 389.