4. In consequence thereof, the flags of both States shall be reciprocally respected, and admitted into their ports. 5. The relations of maritime commerce between the Spanish nation and the States which ratify this convention shall be regulated by a special convention, the adjustment of which will be entered into hereafter. 6. Neither the authorities governing in the provinces of Peru, in the name of his Catholic Majesty, nor the adjoining States, shall impose on the commerce of either greater contributions than those existing at the time of the ratification of this convention. 7. The suspension of hostilities shall continue for the term of eighteen months. 8. Within that period the Government of the State of Buenos Ayres will negotiate, by means of a Plenipotentiary of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, and in conformity with the law of the 19th June, the conclusion of the definitive treaty of peace and amity between his Catholic Majesty and the States of the American Continent to which the said law relates. 9. In the event of hostilities being renewed, they shall not take effect, nor shall commercial intercourse cease, until four months after the notification thereof. 10. The law existing in the Spanish Monarchy, as well as in the State of Buenos Ayres, relative to the inviolability of property, although belonging to an enemy, shall have full effect in the case mentioned in the foregoing article, in the territories of the Governments which ratify this convention, and reciprocally. 11. As soon as the Government of Buenos Ayres shall have been authorised by its Chamber of Representatives to ratify this convention, it will negotiate the accession thereto of the Governments of Chile, of Peru, and of the other United Provinces of Rio de la Plata; and the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty will, at the same time, take every means for giving to this accession, on the part of the authorities of his Catholic Majesty, the most prompt and complete effect. 12. For the due effect and validity of this convention, the necessary copies are signed and sealed, by the Commissioners on the part of his Catholic Majesty, with their seal; and, on the part of Buenos Ayres, with that of the Department for Foreign Affairs. Buenos Ayres, 4th July, 1823. Seal of Foreign Affairs. BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA, RATIFICATION. Buenos Ayres, 23d July, 1823. By virtue of the law of the 17th current, which authorises the Government, the present convention is ratified. BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA. APPROVAL OF THE HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES. THE Honourable Junta of Representatives of the Province, exercising the ordinary and extraordinary sovereignty which belongs to them, in the Session of the 17th current has sanctioned, and decrees, with the value and force of law, what follows: SOLE ARTICLE. The Government is authorised to ratify the preliminary convention, concluded on the 4th of the present month, between the Government of the State of Buenos Ayres and the Commissioners of his Catholic Majesty resident there; and also to negotiate the accession thereto of the States and Governments mentioned in article 11th of the said convention; which is trans mitted to your Excellency for your information and subsequent guidance. God preserve your Excellency many years. Hall of the Sessions, Buenos Ayres, 21st July, 1823. (Signed) MANUEL DE ARROYO Y PINEDO, President. JOSE SEVERO MALAVIA, Secretary. To the Most Excellent the Governor of the Province. DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT. LET acknowledgment be made of the receipt of this, and, let it be inserted in the Official Register; and being ratified, let its enactments be acted upon. RIVADAVIA. NEGOTIATION For voting in favour of Spain the sum of 20,000,000 dollars. THE Honourable Junta of Representatives of the Province, exercising the ordinary and extraordinary sovereignty which belongs to them, has sanctioned, and decrees, with the value and force of law, what follows: SOLE ARTICLE. The war which the King Louis XVIII. is preparing to make on the Spanish nation, being directly and principally opposed to the principle recognised in article I. of the law of the 10th of May, 1822, in case that aggression should be realised, the Government is authorised to negotiate, that after the conclusion of the definitive treaty of peace and amity with his Catholic Majesty on the bases of the law of the 19th of June, to which treaty the convention of the 4th of July current is preliminary, there shall be voted by the American States, recognised as independent, in virtue of the said definitive treaty, for maintaining the independence of Spain under the representative system, the same sum of 20,000,000 as, in the month of March last, was supplied for destroying it by the Chambers of Paris, which, by order of the said Honourable Junta, is communicated to your Excellency for the corresponding objects. God preserve your Excellency many years. Hall of the Sessions, Buenos Ayres, 22d July, 1823. MANUEL DE ARROYO Y PINEDO, President. JOSE SEVERO MALAVIA, Secretary. To the Most Excellent the Governor of the Province. |